Dorothy Miller Richardson Quotes

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Definite speech means clarity of mind.

The art of saying well what one thinks is different from the faculty of thinking. The latter may be very deep and lofty and far- reaching, while the former is altogether wanting.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.

People who think well, write well

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

If you have a clear mind . . . you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.

In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

Typing is no substitute for thinking.

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts.

Great communicators leave their audiences with great clarity.

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?