Độc giả quan tâm đến những gì hiệu quả, và tại sao nó hiệu quả, nên bạn hãy bắt đầu từ điều đó.

Qua việc tập trung nâng cao tính rõ ràng của bài viết, bạn  sẽ chắc chắn sẽ đạt được sự mạch lạc trong suy nghĩ của mình.

Mục đích của công việc nghiên cứu là mở rộng kho tri thức của nhân loại, và vì thế ngay cả những công trình nghiên cứu tốt nhất cũng thành vô dụng nếu bạn không thể truyền đạt nó một cách hiệu quả ra bên ngoài giới nghiên cứu.

Mục đích của bài báo khoa học không phải là để mô tả những gì bạn đã làm, mà để truyền đạt cho đọc giả về những kết quả nghiên cứu thành công và có ý nghĩa quan trọng, và thuyết phục độc giả về tính hợp lý của những kết luận.

Hiểu “thông điệp” bạn muốn truyền tải, và kết nối với nó trong bài báo

Đừng chăm chú vào những chi tiết về cài đặt hoặc về những thí nghiệm trừ khi trong chừng mực nào đó nó đóng góp vào luận điểm chính của bài báo

Nếu bạn thảo luận cách cách tiếp cận đã thất bại, hãy viết ngắn gọn, và cách làm điển hình là viết về nó sau khi bạn đã bàn luận về cách tiếp cận thành công

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.

I hate when people call me a socialite because you have to have money to be a socialite, which I don't have.

Color is just in a small area of our vision, and the rest we add with the mind.

One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations.

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

Calling someone fat doesn't make you any skinnier. Calling someone stupid doesn't make you any smarter. All you can do in life is try and solve the problem in front of you.

There is nothing worse for me than sitting in traffic. That's what killed me in L.A.

There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.

In a novel, even if you put a country in the wrong hemisphere, which I've done, I can always claim it was part of the additional weirdness of the story.

I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?

Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

You know that thing where you repeat a word over and over until it just sounds like utter gibberish? That's what doing a day of press on a film is like. Ten interviews in a row, all asking pretty much the same questions until you find yourself giving pretty much the same answers.

We've only explored about 5% of our ocean. There are great discoveries yet to be made down there - fantastic creatures representing millions of years of evolution and possibly bioactive compounds that could benefit us in ways we can't even imagine.

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.

Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.

Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

I've never flown a kite.

The problem isn't with your body, the problem is what you think of it.