Quotes About Clarity

No, no soy brillante ni la mejor, no soy la mas coherente tampoco. Soy poco, y de lo poco que soy, poco entiendo.

Don't ask for the truth, boy, unless you're ready to hear it.

I like to know the truth. That's all. I just wish the truth was different.

You are not being paid to make assumptions

Time has a way of putting things in perspective, of assigning meaning.

I generally find subtlety a waste of time.

He understood that she needed some time to get used to "them." He didn't. He knew exactly what was happening, and he didn't need another week, another month, another year, to get things in perspective. He loved her. It was that plain. That simple.

Gut reaction is not always God's path. What feels right at the moment has nearly led me down some wrong avenues.

Sometimes God's ways are mysterious. Sometimes He reveals them bit by bit over long periods of time. Then sometimes they're just plain bizarre, but immediately clear -- picture-perfect.

The last thing she needed to do was start a difficult conversation without knowing her own mind and heart.

Bestaat er een leven dat niet doordrongen is van levensnoodzakelijke vergissingen? Bestaat er een helder, transparant leven, zonder vernederende wortels, zonder verzonnen motieven, zonder mythen die uit begeerte zijn ontstaan?

Get to the bloody point!' She

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

Why were the things that were closest so often the hardest to see?

She says what she has to say, and no more. May there be many like her,

Where does thinking get us?' she said. 'All thinking does is bring you down. <...> If you want to get on in life there's things in life you have to ignore so that you can keep on.

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves.

It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate.

It was one of those moments when life's disguises are stripped away, when you see clearly what is real, and all you can say to yourself is "useful to get that learned.

He has the good reporter's gift for being in the right place at the right moment, and the structure and rhythm of his sentences show how well he has mastered his medium.

Is focused on a few important goals (at most), not off chasing every distraction;

Only with a clear mind will you be able to see who is truly in your heart.

This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb.

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.