A Quote by Stephen Covey

Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
American - Educator
October 24, 1932 - July 16, 2012

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

Paul J. Meyer

The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

Abi Morgan

Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what we know-and what we don't know-about whatever we're trying to learn.

William Zinsser

A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.

Helen Dunmore

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Edwin H Friedman

The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.

Dag Hammarskjold

For me, writing clarifies things. It gives meaning, and it makes me see the connections.

Firoozeh Dumas

Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense of forgetfulness, and builds a collection of ideas and reflections that can spur further insights even years later.

Roger N. Walsh

I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other words, Black feminist thought encompasses theoretical interpretations of Black women's reality by those who live it.

Patricia Hill Collins

Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day to deliver your message with authority. You should write one.

Seth Godin

Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

Stephen Fry

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Miguel de Unamuno

A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

Martha Ostenso

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

Agnes Repplier

I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.

Amor Towles

I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

Gayle Forman

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