Gerard Pique Quotes

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.

Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

A word after a word after a word is power.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.

You do know what's coming up when you're translating. I suppose the concentration, then, is on finding a formulation which is speakable and in character - and economical as well, actually.

Words have a lot of power.

When the public doesn't understand me, it's a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and sense, and I choose the right dialect to express that.

Words are powerful.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'