Quotes About Clarity

By fixing my sights on one summit after another, I managed to keep my bearings through some thick postadolescent fog. Climbing mattered. The danger bathed the world in a halogen glow that caused everything—the sweep of the rock, the orange and yellow lichens, the texture of the clouds—to stand out in brilliant relief. Life thrummed at a higher pitch. The world was made real.

A trancelike state settles over your efforts; the climb becomes a clear-eyed dream. Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence--the lapses of consciousness, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes--all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.

When you are explaining, you're losing...

The world didn't always sound right when it was first explained.

Leadership, Jefferson was learning, meant knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts as well as the minds of the larger world.

Those who are frightened of losing what they have are the most vulnerable, and it is difficult to be clear-headed when you believe that you are teetering on a precipice.

That's the psychopath: somebody who doesn't understand what's going on emotionally, but understands that something important has happened." But

This is really clear to me now. Ever since, I've never felt as tepid of this place as other people do. Everything seems like a long, improbable afterlife.

If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.

The best defense against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.

The enemy is noise. The goal is clarity.

There is no word in the English language that gets thrown around more freely by people who don't know what it means than "fascism." Indeed, the more someone uses the word "fascist" in everyday conversation, the less likely it is that he knows what he's talking about.

I am fifty-five years old, and believe God is willing to listen if we speak clearly and to the point. His responses are manifested, not in immediate answers or results, but in dots everywhere around us that need to be connected intelligently.

Walter non aveva mai capito come vivere, ma adesso lo capiva meno che mai

Dogs again had it right. They didn't trouble themselves with mysteries that could never be solved anyway.

Noriu tikr? dalyk? arba nenoriu nieko.

Her problem at Renewable Solutions was that she could never quite figure out what she was selling, even when she was finding people to buy it, and no sooner had she finally begun to figure it out than she was asked to sell something else.

Now that I'm blind, I can see there is nothing to see.

It is always better to clear the air, even if the air often stinks.

All forms of poor communication have one thing in common: They ask the person on the other end of the line to do more work than they should have to.

I never confused what I had with what I was.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

But I still couldn't figure out what it all meant. The more I found out, the less I understood.

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?