Quotes About Clarity

One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth.

'What is Twitter?' has always been a tough question to answer.

I can't figure Twitter out. The way Twitter is formatted, I can't tell who is saying something and who's replying to something. I don't know who the tweeter is and who's responding to the twit.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

Not even a woman cannot understand two people talking at the same time.

I am definitely a keep-it-clean type of person when it comes to e-mail. My 'important' folder on the Gmail app is constantly clean. When a new e-mail comes in to my important folder, I immediately look at it and determine what action item comes with it. The action item may not get done until later, but at least I know it's coming.

I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.

A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.

I always think that in nearly every instance things that turn ugly, they almost invariably do so because of a misunderstanding, or because of poor communication.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth.

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

You have to go where the truth takes you, and that doesn't always take you in exactly the same place where people you speak to might want,or suspects may want. That's your ultimate obligation.

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.

That's my ultimate goal: to get people to say my name right.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super tight for very small details, but then jump back for sort of that big picture perspective. And I think that ultimately, that's one of my strengths, because you have - every detail matters.

I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.