Quotes & Sayings About Transparent Communication

If only we were angels, with transparent bodies and transparent thoughts ... — John Durham Peters

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

I'm unemployable in any other capacity. — Barry Unsworth

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry. — Mahatma Gandhi

This is so weird. I feel like bambi just morphed into a raging nymphomaniac. — Victoria Dahl

They had both been beaten by men who decided that the only things worth less than their souls were their bodies. Cluck — Anna-Marie McLemore

A man should so carry on his daily affairs as to bring no word of admonition from anybody; for a man's doings should put a stain upon no soul but his own. — Ernest Vincent Wright

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe, it nevertheless is coming out of the deepest recesses of myself. — Paul Auster

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes. — Walter Kirn

I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store. — Kathleen Robertson

Life is a song to me. — Dolly Parton

open coding; development of concepts; grouping concepts into categories; formation of a theory. In the open coding stage, we analyze the text and identify any interesting phenomena in the data. Normally each unique phenomenon is given a distinctive name or code. The procedure and methods for identifying coding items are discussed in section 11.5.2. In the second stage, collections of codes that describe similar contents are grouped together to form higher level "concepts." In the third stage, broader groups of similar concepts are identified to form "categories" and there is a detailed interpretation of each category. In this process, we are constantly searching for and refining the conceptual construct that may explain the relationship between the concepts and categories (Glaser, 1978). In the last stage, theory formulation, we aim at creating inferential and predictive statements about the phenomena recorded in the data. — Jonathan Lazar

I wanted to make a good first impression with these girls - and a good second impression with one - and apparently I was convinced this all hung on picking out the right tie. I sighed. These girls were already turning me into a puddle of stupid. — Kiera Cass

God's purpose at the cross was as real as was the guilt of the crucifiers. — J.I. Packer

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we're all constantly correcting each other's grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they're going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that's precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication. — John Green

Aliens bled red, just like everybody else. — Kameron Hurley

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories. — Kenneth Goldsmith

...salute the new sunset — Allen Ginsberg

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language. — Jonathan Lethem