Quotes About Clarity

Een verlangen was het om alles waar zij naar keek in je op te zuigen, om niets te vergeten, geen moment van deze wereld die haar wereld was geworden: koel, helder, ondoorgrondelijk.

Like other people, anthropologists may see only what they want to see, even when what they want to see is nothing.

We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. GEORGE ORWELL

To penetrate the unknown, the mind must begin with what is known already. George Orwell wrote that "We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." This book is an attempt at re-statement.

When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.

Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

Never Send Out a Line-Item Budget Again

the first rule of art is exclusion: knowing what to leave out.

I had friends who were great fans of Star Trek and I don't know if I was smart enough to get it, or patient enough. What I loved about Star Wars was the visceral energy of it, the clarity of it, the kind of innocence and big heart of it. Star Trek always felt a little bit more sophisticated and philosophical, debating moral dilemmas and things that were theoretically interesting, but for some reason I couldn't get on board.

There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'!

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Hades is evolved to the highest state of simplicity.

It was, to reiterate, to stress, to accentuate the point, to leave no doubt, hot.

Meditation is not about accepting the unacceptable. It is about seeing the world with greater clarity so that you can take wiser and more considered action to change those things that need to be changed.

In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.

The Government, Church and television keep the average man so mired in petty concerns that he can no longer discern which battles are worth fighting for.

the leader must 1) avoid getting swamped in detail; 2) not be petty; 3) not be pompous; 4) know how to select people to fit the task; 5) trust others to do a job without the leader's meddling; 6) be capable of clear decisions; 7) inspire confidence.

Holy ambition has always been surrounded by distortions.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.