Pharrell Williams Quotes

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

That is not good language which all understand not.

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

I want to communicate with people, and I want to make something that works, and that people like. I'm never purposefully trying to be antagonistic or shocking or anything that would push an audience away. I'm always hoping to reach as many people as I can.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.

We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours

If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.

The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.

Those who write clearly have readers.

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.

I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing.

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

Hugh [Evans] called us. And obviously this has been on our radar for all the years it's been going on. And each year obviously reaches more and more people, and it's high profile. Hugh reached out to our manager just down the street. And we said we're here [ on GLOBAL CITIZEN in the Central Park] to help and do whatever we can.

I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.