Quotes About Clarity

There aren't any embarrassing questions--just embarrassing answers.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war and how he intends to conduct it.

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

Yank grunted. "That sums it up.

he stressed that the main feature of science is economy of thought;

we have realized that it is our immediate intuitions that are imprecise:

Perhaps it is we who have not yet learned to look at it from just the right point of view, one that would reveal its hidden simplicity.

Scientists are not immune from talking nonsense.

Everything is still confused, and there is a very great deal that remains to be understood.

When we do science, we want to describe the world in the most objective way possible. We try to eliminate distortions and optical illusions deriving from our point of view. Science aspires to objectivity, to a shared point of view about which it is possible to be in agreement.

Perhaps on closer inspection it is not the [Standard Model] that lacks elegance. Perhaps it is we who have not yet learned to look at it from just the right point of view, one that would reveal its hidden simplicity.

The notion of "particularity" is born only at the moment we begin to see the universe in a blurred and approximate way.

Despite certain obscurities,

You have little time left, and none of it for crap. A fine state. I would say that the best of us always comes out when we are against the wall, when we feel the sword dangling overhead. Personally, I wouldn't have it any other way.

When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

If you find things complicated, it means you haven't understood them. Simplicity is the basis of everything.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.

With mindful attention, you realize that thoughts are just thoughts - mental processes in the mind - rather than the truth.

Mindfulness puts you in charge of where you place your attention. Then, when you are less preoccupied with concerns and worries, you have more energy available to attend to your work.

Whenever you are delivering or receiving a handover report, mindful communication ensures the handover is effective.