Quotes About Clarity

With aggressive come-ons, at least you knew where you stood. Holding hands, you got - hopeful.

English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.

Since the ask is an "emotional firecracker" with emotions running quite high, it is important to drill down and see how important your tone of voice is when you ask. While the selection of your words when you make your ask is incredibly important, as you will see in the later chapters, my expression is "Your tone is as important as your words.

When you catch yourself saying things and doing things that indicate you expect the other person will know exactly what you mean and will do what you anticipate, take a minute and see if you actually asked for what you wanted. Chances are you never asked.

Before we ask, or when we never get the words out to ask, we have the tendency to make a lot of assumptions.

This is where we "overtalk the ask." You begin explaining more about why there is a need for what you want without listening to their thoughts. If you don't know their thoughts, you guess what they are, and you jump in with long and lengthy explanations, qualifications, or negotiations, hoping you will convince the person to say yes.

2S+1Q. Every ask needs to be two sentences and one question. The directness of this approach is key to your success. Remember that most asks are overasked and overexplained, and quite simply, there is just way too much discussion on your part so that you leave the person wondering, "Now just what is it that I'm supposed to be thinking about?

Eres la más opaca de todos los opacos

No tenia claro hacia dónde debía dirigirse, pero confiaba en que, cuando llegara allí, lo sabría.

La verdad es una joya de múltiples facetas

a menudo encontraba párrafos enteros que no tenían ningún sentido para ella.

Buscar sombra siempre es doloroso. Pero permanecer ciegos es más doloroso aún.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

Thoughts of course can't be dirty except for ignorance, untruth or ugliness. And why would you think about them anyway.

The computer is a cool medium. . . . you can keep things crisp, refrigerated in a way.

Maybe, I think, when you've waited a long time to see something, you need to find your way to it in glimpses.

The weatherman is always as honest as he is vague.

Why did the best answers to unfounded criticism always come to a person while stewing about the situation afterward?

Then the sun finally comes up, and such 3:00 A.M. thoughts are banished, as they should be.   She

We cannot imagine what we cannot see.

and a Dr. Brown's celery soda.

And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that's when you have to rise to the challenge.

Have you noticed that if you really want something, you can make it happen? But you need to be sure it's what you really want, because sometimes, when it comes true, you realize too late that it's not what you wanted. Not at all.

Lots of people thought he was making jokes when he wasn't and didn't realize he was making jokes when he was. It was irritating.