Blur Quote by Eric Hoffer Download Open image “Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.” — Eric Hoffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blur Ideas Language Sickness Writing
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
It is in this matter that I fall foul of so many American writers on writing; they seem to think that writing is a… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its the only… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes--courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, etc.--can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others. The impression somehow prevails that the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I liked playing Morph in Mash and Peas and doing Phil Daniels in the Blur Rock Profile was a giggle too. — Paul Putner Copy Share Image
One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a vague blur… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
There were some great bands in the 90s like Blur and Oasis, The Stone Roses and all that. — Dylan Llewellyn Copy Share Image
I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of… — KAWS Copy Share Image
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Equipped with cell phones, beepers, and handheld computers, the 'conspicuously industrious' blur the line between home and office by working anytime, anywhere. — Jo Ann Davis Copy Share Image
