Quotes About Clarity

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.

Common sense ain't common.

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing.

What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation?

was just that she felt you were missing the main point—you were focused on one thing when you should have been focused on another.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally," writes Kabat-Zinn. "This kind of attention nurtures greater awareness, clarity, and acceptance of present-moment reality.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

Je bent hier namelijk in de donkere kamer. Maar nergens ter wereld komt zoveel aan het licht als in een donkere kamer.

Je zou een tweede hoofd moeten hebben om te begrijpen wat dat éne hoofd is, maar ik heb er maar een, hier is het in mijn handen, ik houd het vast op een manier waarop een mens nooit iets anders vasthoudt.

Een verschrikkelijke haat tegen leerboeken komt vlaagsgewijze over mij. staan niet in leerboeken de dingen beschreven alsof iedereen altijd geweten heeft dat ze zo waren? Niets blijft er in een leerboek over van de moeite, de twijfel en de wanhoop die bestaan hebben voor een bepaalde conclusie was bereikt.

Ik schrijf, hoewel ik weet dat men alleen één woord schrijven kan door er tienduizend over te slaan. Maar deze tienduizend blijven zweven als modder in een glas vuil water. Kijkt men er boven in, dan verduisteren zij het neerslag dat op die bodem ligt. Ik zie wat ik geschreven heb alleen maar door de troebele mist van dat wat geen gestalte heeft aangenomen. Begrijpt men nu, waarom het door mijzelf beschreven papier zulk een verontreinigde indruk op mij maakt?

Never use the word, 'very.' It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn't mean anything. If you feel the urge of 'very' coming on, just write the word, 'damn,' in the place of 'very.' The editor will strike out the word, 'damn,' and you will have a good sentence.

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

It is, after all, hard to know what to choose when you aren't really sure what you want.

When the number of options available is limited, it is foolish to fuss and fret. We should instead simply choose the best of them and get on with life. To behave otherwise

If words happen to be still dubious, we may establish their meaning from the context; with which it may be of singular use to compare a word, or a sentence, whenever they are ambiguous, equivocal, or intricate.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit—general knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.