Clutter Quote by William Zinsser Download Open image “Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.” — William Zinsser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clutter Corporations Failure Language Mistake Officials Used
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
Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
“Clutter can also be considered an overabundance of items that you do not need.” — Sabina Cloud Copy Share Image
Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Clutter is stuck energy. The word "clutter" derives from the Middle English word "clotter," which means to coagulate - and that's about as stuck… — Karen Kingston Copy Share Image
“Clearing clutter is about getting rid of anything that is no longer a fit for your life. It is about creating space for true… — Kerri L. Richardson Copy Share Image
“Clutter may rob us of the life we imagined or prevent us from creating a new vision for our future.” — Lisa J. Shultz Copy Share Image
Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self. — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
“But the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components. Every words that serves no function, every long word… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous." — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity... out of discord, harmony... and out of difficulty, opportunity. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
If you've had something for more than six months, and it's still not repaired, it's clutter. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information,… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple. — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
