Articles Quote by William Zinsser Download Open image “My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.” — William Zinsser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Articles Brevity Clarity Faith Four Humanity Religion Simplicity Writing
Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Faith is central to my life. I am who I am, I do what I do because of my faith. — Kent Brantly Copy Share Image
... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true… — Heinlein Copy Share Image
Losing your faith is an essential part of having a three-dimensional, vivid, vibrant faith. — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
My faith is something I can always rely on through good and bad times. — Tayshia Adams 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
Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes. — 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
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Authors of published papers and editors of scientific journals can, unfortunately, be slow to come to terms with criticism, and it's good that we… — Andrew Gelman Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I used to be a columnist for 'Golf Monthly' and have contributed articles for national newspapers based on the humour that is in abundance… — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed by the next… — Tench Coxe Copy Share Image