Quotes About Clarity

If your plan is not in writing, you do not have a plan at all. Instead, you have only a dream, a vision, or perhaps even a nightmare. The simple written plan works best.

said Mother vaguely.

Most of us are confused about what is real.

In reality, Hemingway didn't appeal to plumbers or roofers who read books; he was a rich man's writer, with the vocabulary and hunting instinct of the blue-collar workingman. But Hemingway had the unfailing genius of an inventor, and each book he wrote was new, sparkling new, something that hadn't been seen in American prose, something that merged common speech with uncommon clarity, something that verged on poetry. 

The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.

Unless and until all members of a team have a common understanding of the problem, attempts to solve the problem are just so much wasted energy.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. - Will Rogers The

A lamp in a windless grove Does not wink; A mind with nothing to prove Does not blink.

Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.

If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

How often it is that an idea that seems bright bossed and gleaming in its clarity when examined in a church, or argued over with a friend in a frosty garden, becomes clouded and murk-stained when dragged out into the field of actual endeavor.

Somehow, the telling of all this rinsed my mind clean and left me able to think clearly once more. By gathering and sorting my own feelings so, I was finally able to fashion a scale on which I could weigh my father's nature and find a balance between my disgust for him and an understanding of him; my guilt in the matter of his death against the debt he owed me for the manner of my life. At the finish of it, I felt free of him, and I was able to think calmly once more. Elinor

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

Ignorance never settles a question.

Intuition ... appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Trust your hunches. ... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.

We shall keep our horizon perfectly, absolutely, crystallinely open, ready every day for the scouring gales of impulse.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.