Quotes About Clarity

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.

If you look at the big picture, you start losing your focus on the little things.

When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.

I started meditating.

I just don't really like starting a job if I don't know where it finishes. I want to know where something begins and ends so that you can invest something in it.

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go.

I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you're no longer sure which way is up and which way is down.

Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to do.

The best I can do is, it's like a 'ding!' You're writing, and then something starts falling into place, and you hear or feel a ding. And it just feels - it's going to be okay.

In a startup, in the early days, it can be hard to explain what you do.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

There has not been enough clarity over the years in terms of who did what in Boney M but fortunately Frank Farian has since stated that all members of the group could have been replaced except for me. And I like to think that when it comes to the music Liz Mitchell is the sound of Boney M.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

If a player hears me make a statement, I don't want them to be able to deny it.