Quotes About Clarity

Are you crazy? I don't want to wear ideas. I don't want to have all these complicated thing.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

People don't want information; they want epiphanies.

I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also.

He [Oliver Stone] is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you, "Do it like this. Don't do it like that."

Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?

We must be clear about where we're going if we want anyone to help us get there.

Sometimes we don't know what we want until we don't get it.

I'm someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I'm not a control freak but I know what I want.

What I don't understand is what America really wants.

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

Meg! I love you! I want to marry you!" "That's weird," she said without stopping. "Only six weeks ago, you were telling me all about how Lucy broke your heart." "I was wrong. Lucy broke my brain.

No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that. When we don't want to do something we can simply smile and say no. We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say 'No.'

He has a very strong vision of what he wants.

I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms.

Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.

I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.

Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?

People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support

Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.

I'm too old to be farting around with stuff that isn't precisely what I want to do.