Quotes About Clarity

Suffering is a moment of clarity, when you can no longer deny the truth of a situation and are forced into uncomfortable change.

Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The World Doesn't Need Your Explanation. On Saying "No":

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Still struggling with a sense of purpose or mission? Roughly half a dozen people in this book (e.g., Robert Rodriguez) have suggested the book Start with Why by Simon Sinek.

What Is Zen?: Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind by Norman Fischer.

If the commitment is to a long-term goal and not to a series of smaller intermediate goals, then only one decision needs to be made and adhered to. Clear, simple, straightforward. Much easier to maintain than having to make small decision after small decision to stay the course when dealing with each step along the way. This provides far too many opportunities to inadvertently drift from your chosen goal. The single decision is one of the most powerful tools in the toolbox.

Happiness, or at least peace, is the sense that nothing is missing in this moment. No desires running amok. It's okay to have a desire. But pick a big one and pick it carefully. Drop the small ones.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. —RICHARD P. FEYNMAN, Nobel Prize–winning physicist

Either you're in, or you're in the way." Often, we chase after people who aren't "in," who, for whatever reason, don't fit into our lives or our business. We waste time with these people when our focus should be on the people who are in.

usar el sufrimiento para encontrar claridad. Si se analiza el sufrimiento en lugar de ignorarlo,

Part of knowing who you are is knowing who you're not.

If you can't define or act upon it, forget it.

Tracking anything is better than tracking nothing. If you are very overweight, very weak, very inflexible, or very anything negative, tracking even a mediocre variable will help you develop awareness that leads to the right behavioral changes. This underscores an encouraging lesson: you don't have to get it all right. You just have to be crystal clear on a few concepts.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

It's when I'm fuzzy about where I'm headed that I start to say yes to things willy-nilly.

Tengo la firme convicción de que si tienes una idea muy clara de a dónde quieres ir, todo lo demás es mucho más fácil

I had to get back to this place where you just want water, food, and shelter. All the craziness of my life—this Wall Street life I had taken on—would go away, would melt away.

conscious thinking is largely asking and answering questions in your own head. If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want uncommon clarity and results, ask uncommonly clear questions.

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There needs to be one decisive reason, and then the worthiness of the trip needs to be measured against that one reason. If I go, then we can backfill into the schedule all the other secondary activities. But if I go for a blended reason, I'll almost surely come back and feel like it was a waste of time.

John Dewey's dictum that "a problem well put is half-solved