Quotes About Clarity

The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.

Maybe that's the key to happiness—being sort of dumb, not wanting to know any of the answers.

Sophie slept, understanding with a dreamer's fierce clarity that she was doomed.

Once the fight-or-flight reaction gets triggered, the blood flows from our brain to our limbs, and our ability to think clearly diminishes. We forget our purpose and often act exactly contrary to our interests. When we react, we give away our power—our power to influence the other person constructively and to change the situation for the better. When we react, we are, in effect, saying no to our interests, no to ourselves.

The balcony is a metaphor for a mental and emotional place of perspective, calm, and self-control. If life is a stage and we are all actors on that stage, then the balcony is a place from which we can see the entire play unfolding with greater clarity. To observe our selves, it is valuable to go to the balcony at all times, and especially before, during, and after any problematic conversation or negotiation.

Take a deep breath and focus on your purpose—your Yes—in this situation. Ask yourself what you really want and what is really important here. In other words, shift from being reactive and focused on No, to being proactive and focused on Yes.

She began the conversation with Tom by acknowledging his work and then focused on the problem at hand, sticking strictly to the facts:

Effective negotiation requires a persistent focus on what is most important.

You are what you are, I am what I am. It's just as simple as that.

It was then I realized it was all too perfect.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

the more opinions you have, the less you see

Stories give people the feeling that there is meaning, that there is ultimately an order lurking behind the incredible confusion of appearances and phenomena that surrounds them. This order is what people require more than anything else.

For she was clever. It had not been a lie then, that ecstasy which had visited her when she read A Midsummer Night's Dream on top of the railway coach last summer. It had meant something. She had understood something. She was drunk with an intoxicating wine of gladness.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.

Men sometimes stumble over the truth, but often pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing had happened

Non complicate le cose, ci saranno già le cose a complicarsi da sole.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

can best be described as one of these orators who, before they get up, do not know what they are going to say, when they are speaking do not know what they are saying, and when they have sat down, do not know what they have said