Quotes About Clarity

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.

When I wake up, if I can't figure something out during the daytime and then wake up at 4 A.M., it's there immediately. I don't know if it's the subconscious mind working, but it just happens.

Malcolm X's separatist ideas were situational. If you think about where African-Americans were in the 1940s and 1950s, we needed to step away because that force, which is still present but more subdued, was very in your face, and we needed to take a step back just to get some clarity.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

Every subject you think you know, I'll dissect it and show you the truth.

But I think you can strip the emotion and the subjectivity away while you focus on doing the science - and that's really important.

I've always believed that you write to discover what you think. On most subjects, if I'm asked what do I think about them, I'd say I don't know, I'll have to write them down.

Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.

Take any movie from 'Khamoshi' to 'Black,' I was always clear about my subjects.

I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

It's very easy to get caught up in everything that's going on and just daily stuff being a distraction. When you have all that taken away from you, your daily activity becomes a lot more subtle, and you appreciate it all a lot more.

I learned that you don't have to be all over the place, that you can be subtle and you can say what you say. The words that you put together can be just as hilarious as falling all over the place or doing something.

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

It seems to me that the time for subtlety in our American life has passed.

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.

Subtlety doesn't work with kids.