Quotes About Clarity

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing.

This is the operative statement. The others are inoperative.

People lead complicated lives and aren't hanging on your every word or the company mission statement. You have to become a broken record of your expectations of the organization and show people why it is relevant and how it works in specific ways.

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

What is SOCOM's mission statement in two sentences? Most people I know in SOF cannot recite it. If it's not clear from the bottom up, then it's a problem.

If you're making a statement just to poke, people can see that. If you're making it to say something genuinely, people can understand that as well. They are smart enough to see the difference.

A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.

I often want things to make definite statements. If I order onions sliced thinly on my hamburger, I don't want them to come out sort of medium. But that doesn't mean it's a reasonable desire, in all things.

I don't make grandiose, prophetic statements in my songs.

My statements and actions are pretty clear.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.

You're always carrying something that's interfering. It's like static noise that doesn't have to be there, and you have to school yourself to clean that out.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

Stay focused on the mission.

Try to always stay focused on the objectives that are possible and the positive - and on having fun outside of the stuff that's going on in Washington.

Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.

I've just got to keep a balanced head and stay focused.

Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.

I have always stayed away from TV. It never made sense to me.

What's the point of staying sober?