Precise Quote by Bertrand Russell Download Open image “Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.” — Bertrand Russell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Precise Writing
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Writing shouldn't come between the reader and what's being described. It should be as transparent as possible. — Diana Athill Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there. — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
We need to be more precise in how we talk about these issues. People around the word follow our presidential campaigns so closely, trying… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this… — Alvaro Siza Vieira Copy Share Image
I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old to be… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image