There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
Interpretation
Effective communication is crucial to conveying important ideas.
The quote emphasizes the significance of how ideas are presented. Even the most valuable insights can be overlooked if they are poorly articulated. It suggests that the manner in which we express our thoughts holds considerable weight in ensuring that they are heard and appreciated.
In practice
In a workshop on effective communication, this quote could be used to illustrate the importance of presentation.
I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud.
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called other, which is simply another universe, another planet, another species.
A good science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its science content.
Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.
My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.
Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect
If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.
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