Quotes About Clarity

Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.

Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you because it's clearer who they are. I think if you want to make a performance authentic, there are a certain amount of leaps of faith into the unknown that you have to take. Otherwise, you're not really risking anything.

In a lot of ways knowledge kills fear. Once you know who the boogie man is, once you know what's under the bed, it can still be frightening but that fear of the unknown is gone.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn't tell you enough... I won't do anything unless I'm told why I'm doing it. So I felt that we needed fuller explanations so that if you followed one of those recipes, it should turn out exactly right.

Old women can see through walls.

Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy.

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to say, 'I like you, I want to go out with you, you can ask me.' And still I would question it. Did she mean it?

The more women walk around in sweat pants, the harder it is to tell who's out jogging and who's running away from a mugger.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

"Don't be stupid!" is excellent advice.

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

Part of the skill of saying no is to shut up afterward and not babble on, offering material for an argument.

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

Having a sense of purpose in life is the best way to avoid dispair.

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

If everybody would just stop talking, my job would be a lot easier.

General notions are generally wrong.

Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.

The surest way to get what you need is to communicate.

People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.

Did you hear what I said? It was very profound.