Word: candor
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...realize that people around you must be constantly reminding you to hold your tongue...There is a difference between meanness and simple candor...I don't want you to be so spooked about the former that you shy away from the latter. For one thing, people expect you to say what's on your mind. On your mind, not what some consultant or focus group tells you an audience or interest group expects to hear. You can buy applause lines at the expense of basic credibility. You can tarnish the qualities of honesty, trust and the Midwestern grit that have...
...everyone now knows too well, those instincts are, above all, cautious. Campaign veterans observe that deciding to run for President is fundamentally an irrational act. Colin Powell, for all his candor and appealing humanity, has never been given to irrational acts. He decided to marry Alma only when she threatened to break up with him as he was heading for Vietnam. And so he went about weighing the White House bid very carefully. One of Powell's 13 Rules is "Check small things." He reviewed every pro and con, every poll, talked to a wide circle of friends and advisers...
...they were to report issues of concern with greater candor, I wouldn't have walked through Kennedy Park, I would have taken another route," Russell said. "I would have gotten a permit to carry mace," which he has since done...
...wonder how anyone can find some satisfaction from a game in which Harvard went the entire first half without a completion, in which Harvard turned the ball over four times. I found solace in the integrity, honesty and candor of the Harvard players, particularly senior linebacker Justin Frantz and senior quarterback Vin Ferrara...
...itself. Later figures in this line would be John James Audubon and Thomas Eakins. But Copley was the first. He took the linear, enumerative style of early American effigy painting and made it peculiarly grand--not through rhetoric, as in the "grand manner," but through the candor of its curiosity. He did not edit out the warts and wens, the pinched New England lips, the sallow skin and (as several portraits show) the pockmarks that were the common disfigurement of an age before vaccination. Eighteenth century America did not have today's obsession with the cosmetic...