Quotes About Clarity

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

You have to know what you want to get it.

La semplicità dev'esser tale che lo scrittore, o chiunque l'adopra in qualsivoglia caso, non si accorga, o mostri di non accorgersi di esser semplice, e molto meno di esser pregevole per questo capo. Egli dev'esser come inconsapevole non solo di tutte le altre bellezze dello scrivere, ma della stessa semplicità.

You just need a little perspective. Warmed chocolate can give you that.

Jurists, with rare exceptions, are unconsciously and tenaciously averse to clarity and brevity.

Le nostre parole sono spesso prive di significato. Ciò accade perché le abbiamo consumate, estenuate, svuotate con un uso eccessivo e soprattutto inconsapevole. Le abbiamo rese bozzoli vuoti. Per raccontare, dobbiamo rigenerare le nostre parole. Dobbiamo restituire loro senso, consistenza, colore, suono, odore. E per fare questo dobbiamo farle a pezzi e poi ricostruirle.

When he finished, summing up the meaning of what he had played in two conclusive, melancholy scales, there was a burst of friendly applause. And I also applauded and kept doing so until I was sure he had seen me, because I was starting to realize that there are such things as misunderstandings and I didn't want there to be any at that moment.

At times of disorientation people need to go back to identity, purpose, and context.

It may be crazy, but I'm the closest thing I have to a voice of reason.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Actors aren't particularly deep thinkers. I'll simply tell the truth. That always confuses them.

Is that the ultimate paradox of life, she wondered, that the universe should become less clear with age?

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." —Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

There was something wrong; nobody else had to tell me. Writing it down made me see it. I'd told myself, as if writing to another person.

You can puzzle over lines all your life and never be satisfied with the meanings you get.

Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.

Imagine how fluid life would be if we each had an advisor who, with our best interest at heart, provided clear, objective and decisive guidance. When we trust our instincts, we do.

You drop your mental baggage because you see that it offers nothing of value but only takes you away from the experience of the beautiful being that you are.

I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.

In his head he felt the confused whirling of images seeking a name. Words, sounds, surged up inside him, clean and clear, and settled on everything around him. He named, and saw what he named recognize itself.

Ya no mujer joven sino mujer rotunda. Mis deseos ya no intuiciones sino certezas.

A natureza clama contra tal insanidade, assegurando-nos que nem o espírito nem o corpo devem temer a morte, porque tanto a forma quanto a matéria são princípios absolutamente inalteráveis.

Un borracho busca bajo un farol la llave que ha perdido: un transeúnte caritativo se ofrece para ayudar al pobre achispado a encontrar la llave perdida. Al cabo de un buen rato de buscar sin éxito alguno la llave bajo el farol, el señor compasivo, algo fastidiado, dirigiéndose al borracho le pregunta: "Pero, ¿está usted seguro de haberla perdido aquí?" Y el otro replica: "No, pero es que donde la he perdido está muy oscuro para buscarla"» (Nardone 1988, p. 154).