Quotes About Clarity

When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.

Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.

As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.

There's so much interference, so much static and people's voices talking about what you do and why you do it that I've learned to be like, 'No, no.' It's actually simple. I just do this.

I tried to listen to way too many voices in my first stint as a head coach. The second time around, I know what I want and how I want to do it.

Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.

I recognize that it often serves competitors best to talk past each other - especially when you are trying to claim the fleeting attentions of voters on a debate stage or on social media. But think how much more clarity we could get if the people who wanted to be president clearly explained why he or she is the better choice.

When you're not sure what your constituents want, if you have a more conservative approach, or you have a wait-and-see approach - boy, voters were pretty clear about what they expect.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

You don't ask about what can be seen.

What you sees, is what you gets.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

Everything is self-evident.

I told you to sell it, not give it away.

I've still got my senses about me, and I know what's right and wrong, which is the main thing.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

I find that when I'm in an argument and I'm angry, I can't even form a sentence well. You say something and then later you're like 'That's not even what I meant at all!'

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.