Quotes About Clarity

Apple's design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things—that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Half-formed ideas, they float around. They come from different places, and the mind has got this wonderful way of somehow just shoveling them around until one day they fit. They may fit not so well, and then we go for a bike ride or something, and it's better."12

Jobs was blown away by bitmapping. "It was like a veil being lifted from my eyes," he recalled. "I could see what the future of computing was destined to be.

If you need slides, it shows you don't know what you're talking about.

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One of the basic lessons for innovation is to stay focused.

the simplicity that comes from conquering complexities, not ignoring them.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. The artful minimalism of the speech gave it simplicity, purity, and charm.

things, by removing the superfluous." The G4 Cube was almost ostentatious

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like all great beauty, his music was pure simplicity.

Decidere quello che non si deve fare è non meno importante che decidere quello che si deve fare.

He would aim for simplicity and beauty, and beauty for him was, after all, essentially simplicity.

we others who thirst for reason want to look our experiences as straight in the eye as if they represented a scientific experiment

Thoughts are thoughts and that's all they are.

Like most drunks he thought that if he took longer to think he'd come up with the thoughts of a sober man.

The real scholar must choose truth and somehow it is better if it is made so ugly that nobody could doubt its virginity.

They say that a lady's mind is always expressed in her postscript, so I would have you think that the most important part of your commission lies in what I have last said to you.

Truth is absolute and for all time. But one man cannot envisage all of truth; the best he can do is see one aspect of it whole. That is why I say to you, be a skeptic, Hodge. Always be the skeptic.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

If you can't communicate, it's like winking at a girl in the dark.

TRUTH comes easier when you're nine years old, too. Everything's a lot less complicated. This or that. Us or them. Truth or lie.