Quotes About Clarity

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

I know it's cheesy, but if you listen to the universe, it gives you pointers. I strongly believe if you keep your ears open and eyes open, your path will become clear. You just have to make sure you don't ignore it.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They were not necessarily the same sentences the professors pointed out, which would turn up for further explication on an exam. I noted them for their clarity, their rhythm, their beauty and their enchantment.

Any business or club has to have a hierarchy. Everybody needs to know and understand his role in the overall structure. Bayern Munich is no different.

Everything was sensory and I never saw the structure in anything.

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.

When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

While driving to work, I'll choose to think about a particular subject rather than just have random thought streams landing on one subject or another. For example, I might think about the structure of an opinion. Or I might think about the first sentence of an opinion, refining it.

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out without any insight as to why.

I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.

It's important for me as an actor to know the entire script before you start shooting, and especially if you're directing, you don't want to be struggling with anything.

I am not struggling. What I do, it is what I do.

Inevitably any series that goes on too long will reach a point where it starts struggling for ideas, so I've always been really aware of getting out while the going's good.

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

I'm not a big fan of introducing a bunch of new mysteries into a story without really knowing where they're going because you just end up struggling at the end to make sense of them and make it all seem like you planned it all along.

In my own opinions as a judge, I have never yet had occasion to find a statute ambiguous.

I think it's important to be up front with where you differ with your opponent and be ready to take that on.

I think that when we're looking at things when we're right in the center of things, as opposed to being a bit unmoored from what's going on around us, we see things through a kind of dulling lens of convention, and there's something about extreme emotional experiences that gives us a heightened clarity, I think, of thought and of feeling.

People, including business leaders, are willing to be open-minded about investment dollars when they know where they are going - and what purpose they are going to be dedicated - as opposed to just going into the black abyss of the general fund.