Quotes About Clarity

Gus gave me a list of ice cream orders. "You can read, right?" "Yep." "I always gotta ask these days.

As far as you know? I can't know any further than that.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

A fish has no concept of water.

The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.

Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.

I felt on the verge of something, a mystery that surrounded me like gauze, something I was beginning to unwind.

Mainly, it was the sense of order, vision retained over time, that brought me to my knees.

This is Zen, she said. No flaw, no moment's hesitation. A window onto grace.

Only in a show like this could you see the complete picture, stack the pieces up, hold them to the light, see how it all fit together. It made me hopeful, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time. We

This was an artist's stare, attentive to detail, taking in the truth without preconceptions.

It made me hopefully, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.

It was as if I was blind and she'd told me, sight doesn't matter, it's just as well you can't see.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

I imagined Kandinsky's mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle. Only in a show like this could you see the complete picture, stack the pieces up, hold them to the light, see how it all fit together. It made me hopeful, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.

People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.

You don't make a statement unless you make noise.

You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

Unlike a goldfish, a computer can't really do anything without you telling it exactly what you want it to do.

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

I'm pretty single-minded, unlike a lot of directors who miraculously seem to be holding six projects in their hand at a given time and juggling them accordingly.

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

I always feel that I am writing for somebody who is bright but impatient. Someone who doesn't have unlimited time. That is my sense of the reader. So I have got to get to the point.