Shawn Spears Quotes

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

My job is to be accurate and clear.

Numbers don't lie. I think it's pretty cut and dry what consistency is.

I like to think of myself as detail-oriented.

Done right, precision can help clarify, plus it's fun.

People who want to express themselves effectively can learn a lot from the hard-won concision of the copywriter.

The more you can keep your action and your mind and the ball you are delivering as simple as you can nothing can go wrong.

One thing you learn about doing nonfiction is that you've got to get it right, fact-check, do your research. You've got to not only get the facts right but represent the subject to the world in a way that insiders feel like it's an access port and outsiders can access it. If you're too insider, you block access to anyone else.

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.

Just being a commentator is not as easy as people think with going out there and talking for three hours. So, I don't call myself a commentator: I call myself an analyst.

I enjoy the mental gymnastics that go along with matching voice to picture and vice versa and trying to accent the action as opposed to provide all of the action through my words. And that's really what play-by-play is.

There is a world of difference between not disclosing fine detail and relying on broad and generalised assertions. The first may be understandable; the second is not acceptable.

I know words sometimes have consequences, but I try to choose the correct words every time.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.

What is necessary is to rectify names.

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection.

I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions.

Everything that is exact is short.

After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.