Quotes About Clarity

You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.

are acting out an old tradition that may not have any meaning now or may never have had a meaning, something that they clung to through the centuries because it was the one reality they had, the one thing in which they could believe. It gave them a sense of continuity, a belonging to the ancient past. It was something that set them apart as special people and made them important.

The incurious eye misses the obvious, the subtle, the subtext. The incurious eye is glazed in a cataract of ignorance and indifference. The incurious eye is neither blind nor myopic. It is empty.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.

If life was simpler we wouldn't get lost in it

Here let me be quite clear: the primary impulse behind such creations is not escapism. That implies a kind of cowardice in the face of the world, which is not what inspires such visions. Quite the reverse. It is a hunger to see more clearly that fuels the true fantasist. A desire to express the world's transforming heart.

Give me ambiguity or give me something else.

Finally, slowly, like a newly lighted oil lamp gathering kerosene up into its wick, Wally's face began to glow. He turned to Mack Fulton. "Mack, you know what's on my mind?

understanding is that word came down from Mr. Specter that there was no threat and

the Buddhist scripture expresses it: Those who refuse to discriminate might as well be dead

Faculty X is the ability to grasp the reality not simply of other times and places, but of the present moment as well.

the man who thinks too much is likely to go to exhausted extremes where the world becomes a shadowy paradigm of ideas. To keep sane he must continually come back to reality.

I never write purely for the fun of it. I write as a mathematician uses a sheet of paper for doing calculations: because I think better that way

It didn't make no sense until it made the only sense.

Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with trees up close but from outside, from the empty meadow, you see its true limits.

You go on about reasons, Cora said, call things by other names, as if it changes what they are. But that doesn't make them true. ....It's true though, your complaint. We come up with all sorts of fancy talk to hide things.

favored on her visits. Up close, it was plain

La única forma de saber cuánto tiempo te has perdido en la oscuridad es que te saquen de ella.

This or this," his eye doctor asked at checkups, a choice between two lenses of different power. Elwood never ceased to marvel how you could walk around and get used to seeing only a fraction of the world. Not knowing you only saw a sliver of the real thing. This or this?

Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth. Nothing

world. They didn't need people to say what they meant. The tables and facts couldn't be shaped into what they were not. The

Things are happening too fast for her to convince herself that she does not need time to think, to get to the bottom of things.

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.