Raymond Duncan Quotes

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.

I believe most things can be said in a few lines.

I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

Terms are like shredded wheat - two are wonderful, but three might just be too many.

What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the faint buzzing noise in your ears, a heaviness on both sides of your skull, and the sensation that your brain is twitching inside your cranium like a fish on the beach. This is the opposite sensation of clarity. Yet for many people of my era, as they aged, this sensation became the dominant sensation of their lives. It was as though day-to-day twentieth century living had become an unsolvable algebraic equation.

Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.

Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

All new learning looks at first like chaos.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

If you don't know what you're being asked to do, make sure you clarify. I think people in every business are afraid to ask questions.

I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find out for themselves, the more vigor the organization is going to have.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.

The more you say, the less people remember.