Quotes About Clarity

Rule 1 for solving our problems is: Get the facts. Let's do what Dean Hawkes did: let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

Brood over your topic until it becomes mellow and expansive...then put all these ideas down in writing, just a few words, enough to fix the idea...put them down on scraps of paper—you will find it easier to arrange and organize these loose bits when you come to set your material in order.

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

21 palavras de Thomas Carlyle que o ajudaram a levar uma vida livre de preocupações: "Nossa principal função não é enxergar o que jaz vagamente a distância, e sim fazer o que está claramente à mão.

Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

Your tone speaks so loudly I can hardly hear a word you are saying.

confusion is the chief cause of worry.

I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let's examine the facts.

As Charles Kettering puts it: "A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

Si no oía claramente el nombre, decía: "Lo siento. No oí bien". Después, si el nombre era poco común, preguntaba cómo se escribía.

His name was Sir William Osler. Here are the twenty-one words that he read in the spring of 1871—twenty-one words from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.

In solitude, we may find a new beginning, an opportunity to break old habits. In solitude, we may find increased sensitivity, compassion, and empathy. In solitude, we may find the truth of ourselves, restore our dulled senses, and clarify and reorder our priorities. Above all, in solitude, we may find God, and come to hear that voice.

To live strongly and creatively in the kingdom of the heavens, we need to have firmly fixed in our minds what our future is to be like. We want to live fully in the kingdom now, and for that purpose our future must make sense to us. It must be something we can now plan or make decisions in terms of, with clarity and joyful anticipation. In this way our future can be incorporated into our life now and our life now can be incorporated into our future.

And if you are already flying upside down and don't know it, your cleverness will do you little good.

Love means will-to-good, willing the benefit of what or who is loved. We may say we love chocolate cake, but we don't. Rather, we want to eat it. That is desire, not love. In our culture we have a great problem distinguishing between love and desire, but it is essential that we do so.

Commitment is not sustained by confusion but by insight. The person who is uninformed or confused will inevitably be unstable and vulnerable in action, thought and feeling.

First, we must learn from him the reason why we live and why we do the things we do.

You know something when you are able to deal with it as it is on an appropriate basis of thought and experience.

Mystery" means, in the language of the New Testament, something that had long remained hidden but then came to be known for the first time. The

Preliminary 2: In a Mirror, Dimly

Bluntly, to serve God well we must think straight; and crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil. And when the crooked thinking gets elevated into group orthodoxy, whether religious or secular, there is always, quite literally, "hell to pay." That is, hell will take its portion, as it has repeatedly done in the horrors of world history.