Quotes About Clarity

This was not even a matter of putting two and two together; it was looking at four.

Cody sat and looked around him as if the world had gone mad and exploded into a hideous caterwauling din, and he was the only one left with a clear head and a sense of decency.

She said it through a mouthful of pizza and still made it sound as if she was explaining shoelaces to someone with brain damage.

Is that what you call it now?" she said, and although her words might as well have been in Estonian, for all the sense they made, her tone was very clear, and it did not hold even the memory of anything pleasant. I

I blinked. I had just had another thought, something very significant; I was quite sure of it. I didn't know what it was, but I knew it was there. I rewound my thoughts, marching them by again at a slower speed. I sat up even straighter in my chair as I scanned—and there it was. I don't know if I found it because I had such excellent posture, but just in case, I sent a little mental thank-you card back through time to Mrs. Parker.

Every now and then I feel like I am only receiving one track of a stereo recording, and this was one such time. I had no idea what—well, to be honest, I didn't even have an idea what to have an idea about.

My story is simple, straightforward, and unassailable. I learned

My story is simple, straightforward, and unassailable. I

I went through my reasoning again, checking it carefully, looking for any indications that I had added things up wrong, and found none. I was as sure as I could be, and that's always a nice feeling. If I lived through all this, I must remember to have that feeling more often.

AS FAR AS I KNOW, I HAVE NEVER SAUNTERED. TO BE completely honest, I doubt very much that I have even strolled, but sauntering is far beyond me. When I go somewhere, it is with a clear purpose in mind, and although I hesitate to sound boastful, more often than not I tend to stride.

I'm. Not. Stupid." "I never thought you were," I said, which was actually true: amazingly scatterbrained, yes, but not stupid. "Is that why you're crying?" She

There comes a point in every conversation where at least one of the people involved has to know what is being talked about, and I decided that point had arrived.

Several brilliantly funny remarks crowded into my mouth and fought for space on my tongue, but once again I somehow made myself stay focused on the larger point, which was that I still had no idea what Rita was talking about. "I'll be there at two thirty," I said. "If you promise to tell me where it is and why I'm going there." Astor

so the first inclination of the uncertain is to accept that which seems easy.

Your most scarce resource is focus.

Confused?" "Not really. To be confused you have to be paying attention.

if you've got a problem, sleep on it before you make a decision you might later regret. Things always look rosier in the morning.

for his presence will become clear." They all sat down around a circular table in the center of the room. "I realize this meeting was called to discuss

to be in the middle distance, and he was not perceptibly

And then he realized—it had to be Tom Bradshaw's father.

What are you getting at?

understand the

Mindfulness may be understood as friendly, nonjudging, present-moment awareness.

Silence empowers us. Stilling the chatter and clamor of our minds and our worries about life, we find the focus and clarity needed to end pain, alienation, oppression, and fear" (Feldman 2003, 26).