Quotes About Clarity

No sabía bien que era la vida porque no sabía con que contrastarla.

Onun hayat?n? kurtarmaya çal??mak büyük bir zaman kayb?. Ä°nsanlar hayatlar?n?n kurtar?lmas?n? istemiyor. Dramlar?n?n. Önemsiz meselelerinin. Hikayelerinin çözümlenmesini, pisliklerinin temizlenmesini istemiyorlar. Çünkü geriye ne kalaca??n? biliyorlar, Büyük ve korkunç bir bilinmeyen.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.' " Colleen's face scrunched up. "What Bible passage is that?" "It's not the Bible, it's Isaac Asimov.

Be vigilant with the truth, Arav. Our truth, our love, it's what we have.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Wohl niemand tanzt, wenn er nüchtern ist, er müsste denn den Verstand verloren haben.

atque illi artifices corporis simulacra ignotis nota faciebant; quae uel si nulla, nihilo sint tamen obscuriores clari uiri.

Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want.

What importance should be given to details, in developing a subject?-- Remorselessly sacrifice everything that does not contribute to clarity, verisimilitude, and effect. Accentuate everything that sets the main idea in relief, so that the impression be colourful, picturesque. It's sufficient that the rest be in its proper place, but in half-tone. That is what gives to style, as to painting, unity, perspective, and effect. - Constantin Georges Romain Héger, teacher to Charlotte Brontë

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly, or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves.

Americans see everything too simply—a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question.

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly, or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves. Sirena

The simplest and least flattering explanation was always the right one, I'd learned over the years. But

She, who had felt she saw so clearly that it hurt, had felt that the truth, crystalline, was, with Murray, granted her (though not through his help, or anything he did: but just by his presence; as though, indeed, he were but a part of her that had been lost, a magnificent platonic epiphany repeated, and daily repeated: this, surely, was love!), felt, now, that the weight of emotion lay like a veil, a fine mist.

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly, or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves.

Kurogane: You just said Buu with your mouth, right? That isn't whistling. Fai: I don't know how to whistle.

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, then you don't know what you are doing.

You'll see that without theory, we're at sea without a sextant.

These three parts—likeness, commitment, and metrics—comprise a company's purpose. Companies that aspire to positive impact must never leave their purpose to chance. Worthy purposes rarely emerge inadvertently; the world is too full of mirage, paradox, and uncertainty to leave this to fate. Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

Even with good intentions and deep love, we can fundamentally misunderstand each other. We get caught up in the day-to-day chores of our lives. Our communication ends up focusing only on who is doing what. We assume things.

likeness, a commitment, and a metric—is the most reliable way I know of to define for yourself what your purpose is, and to live it in your life every day.