Quotes About Clarity

You find little ways to keep your mind at peace so that you can, at the end of the day, do the most important thing, which is do a good job.

The most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.

Before I found my peace, I was way too much in my head. I found myself on the field in my own thoughts. I've learned that there's a time and a place for my thoughts. The most important thing when I'm on the field is to just be in the moment and let it all go.

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

Sometimes our passion will motivate us to say things that can easily be misunderstood.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.

Necesitamos aprender de lo obvio, más que indagar en lo oculto. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Articulation plays an important role in the dissemination of knowledge, as knowledge is conceived in the unconstrained vision.

Of course, I do not believe that there is such a thing as a 'value-free' science, much less a value-free 'social science.' Hence, I do not urge anything so naive as a value-free observer or observation; on the contrary, what I urge is that the observer's aims and values be as clear and explicit as possible.

There was a beautiful thoroughness about his wakened anger--it never made inquiries till later.

Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous.

Google this by Thoreau and see if you can find it among the many many posterized quotes. No. We want doctrines and schemes. The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky. If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

I had learned at last to not project my darkness onto those around me;

The word "see" is often used as a direct synonym for "understand"—"I see what you mean." Yet sometimes we see but we don't understand; worse, we see, then "understand" something that isn't true at all. Done well, a picture of data is worth the proverbial thousand words.

the "curse of knowledge" is a constant obstacle to clear communication: once you know a subject fairly well, it is enormously difficult to put yourself in the position of someone who doesn't know it.

Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

I have tried, of course, to be faithful to the evidence. Yet evidence is not truth. It is only evident.

Whenever he told the story, Rat had a tendency to stop now and then, interrupting the flow, inserting little clarifications or bits of analysis and personal opinion. It was a bad habit, Mitchell Sanders said, because all that matter is the raw material, the stuff itself, and you can't clutter it up with your own half-baked commentary. That just breaks the spell. It destroys the magic. What you have to do, Sanders said, is trust your own story. Get the hell out of the way and let it tell itself.