Clear Articulation Quotes

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain firm in our clear articulation that the use of violence in response to speech is to be condemned.

I think what qualitiy make for good directors is being able to articulate what you want; it can cause problems with a lack of communication. I'm not an actor who requires much talking to a director, I don't want to sit down and discuss a scene for hours and hours; that would bore me.

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

High thoughts must have high language.

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved.

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

I find it hard to put complicated situations clearly on paper and, to be brutally frank, even harder to get a reply from you in time to count much.

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.