Caroline Polachek Quotes

I just need to direct traffic, get everyone lined up, in and out of the huddle and make sure everything is crisp so that everyone is on the same page.

Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

I am not the kind of designer who is racing to the finish line, so while collaborations are important for our growth, each and every one has to be strategic and well-timed with what we have going on internally.

With any project there's one or two things that you really want to do and that's going to crack it.

I am a firm believer that if you can explain it to a kid, you're on the right track.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

Besides being one of the most ambitious projects I have worked on, 'Mercury' has also helped me enhance my skills as a director.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

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

Clarity proceeds Mastery!

Clarity breeds mastery.

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.

Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired.

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects.

We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

Conciseness is underrated

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

We must be clear about where we’re going if we want anyone to help us get there.

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

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