Lack of Clarity Quotes

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

I am impatient with directors who don't know what they want, and the way you don't know what they want is because they want to do one more. "Let's do one more." So, "What for?" I guarantee you there's not going to be a change.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

Where jargon turns living issues into abstractions, and where jargon ends by competing with jargon, people don't have causes. They only have enemies.

It’s like a presidential press conference. Information goes in and information goes out, but there is not necessarily a connection between the two.

Nobody today is normal, everybody is a little bit crazy or unbalanced, people's minds are running all the time. Their perceptions of the world are partial, incomplete. They are eaten alive by their egos. They think they see, but they are mistaken; all they do is project their madness, their world, upon the world. There is no clarity, no wisdom in that!

What I mean is, I don't know what I mean.

The uncertainty of Socialists themselves concerning the organization of the society they are wishing for, paralyses their energy

When I was younger - up until I was 19 years old and in college - I was surrounded with people in high school who felt like they knew what they wanted to do with their lives, and that was intimidating to me because I didn't.

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle.

If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.

Legislatures now pass statutes because of, not despite, their lack of clarity. By using vague language, legislators can avoid making the difficult political choices that they have to confront when drafting a statute precisely.

I've made more bad decisions at 3 in the morning than I can list!

The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.

Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.

Wasn't that the way it always was? You didn't know, you couldn't tell, you just let it happen... Perhaps they didn't know themselves. Sometimes the line was very fine.

Obscurity is never a virtue.

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

Being on the outside of something, watching someone make a risky decision, it's so easy to judge someone for that. But when you're in it, it's impossible to see it.

It is not confused. We are.