What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility
As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.
The biggest thing is to overcommunicate your vision. It's so important to have real clarity as to what is inside your head, and sometimes that's really terrifying for people.
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
When you're pitching movies, sometimes you know what the idea is, but you fully don't know the dimensions of it.
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.
An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.
