People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.
B.R. MyersTags: language grammar clarity-of-thought
Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.
Patricia T. O'ConnerTags: writing logic clarity-of-thought
Clear synapses are like driving in Ireland. You hit a straight-away
and you gun it, cos you know it's not going to last long.
Tags: clarity-of-thought
They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: wisdom intelligence clarity-of-thought truths iq
Most info-Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: media journalism journalists clarity-of-thought fox-news media-journalism manufacturing-consent
...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTags: nerd nerds clarity-of-thought modernity modernity-is-a-sickness fragility nerdiness modern-values internet-addiction robustness wisdom-vs-nerdiness
They spoke politely and with deference to the adults, whereas it went against my nature not to speak plainly. To many people speaking plainly is the same as speaking rudely. Whereas to me, if one was direct, it saved time and misunderstanding.
Theresa BreslinTags: etiquette clarity-of-thought speaking matteo
There is a bigger picture, just step back from the canvas.
Ilona SimoneTags: clarity-of-thought
Realize clarity from calamity.
T.F. HodgeTags: clarity clarity-of-thought clarity-of-perception realize quotes-to-live-by calamity-and-attitude
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