Quotes About Clarity

Finally, one great benefit of mastering "no" is that you give yourself so much more time and energy to pursue what you really care about, i.e. all those things you can say a hearty and resounding yes to!

Effective storytelling is all about being as specific as you can and being as detailed as you can.

Most conflict stems from either an emotional reaction or a fundamental misunderstanding.

A story can be composed solely of (1) one action, (2) one emotion to be evoked, and (3) a one-sentence summary. Don't get lost rambling, and also make sure your listener feels that they are fully participating in the conversation.

there is no such thing as too much communication.

The enemy of accountability is ambiguity

If everything is important, then nothing is.

Unless the line of a life, once it has reached its term, purges itself of all its useless and decorative elements. In which case, all that remains is the essential: the blanks, the silences and the pauses.

The first step to knowing God's plan for our lives is the commitment to see ourselves as we really are.

You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

If you're too specific, people will purposely mishear you so they can be outraged about whatever thing that usually outrages them.

But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

I just want the world to make sense now and then, is that so wrong?

But I begin to wonder if doubt is better than the wrong knowledge.

A little knowledge could be a large comfort.

It is now or never," said the yew tree. "You must speak the truth.

That's the secret of this planet, Todd. Communication, real and open, so we can finally understand each other for once.

But fog does not stop the Land. We simply open our voices wider, passing the small steps in front of us along and along and along, each to each, until a whole picture of the march opens in front of us and our own limited physical sight in the fog becomes a single walking vision. The Land is not blind. The Land marches.

WHAT THE EFF IS GOING ON?" I roar, but I don't say "eff", now do I? Cuz it seems the situashun calls for something a little stronger. "WHAT EFFING PLAN?

Noise ain't truth,