Quotes About Clarity

It's not enough to quote someone; it's important to specify what aspect of that person you're referencing. Every time we talk about someone, we speak of that person as if our perception is the same for everyone. When

Cuando se quiere agregar agua a un vaso que está totalmente lleno, primero es necesario vaciarlo. Así una mente llena de opiniones y especulaciones no puede aprender, debemos vaciarla para que se de una condición de apertura

La verdad. Qué cierto es eso de que cuando llevamos mucho tiempo buscando la verdad, el día que por fin la descubrimos llega lo más difícil. ¿Qué hacer con ella? Lo curioso no es tanto haberla tenido delante de nuestros ojos todo el tiempo y no haber sabido verla hasta el último momento. Lo realmente curioso es que cuando por fin aparece, la verdad no permite largos plazos. Exige actuar, normalmente con urgencia.

He entendido con el corazón encogido que la verdad, cuando aparece, a menudo es solo la puerta a otra verdad más profunda que jamás habíamos sospechado y que a menudo lo explica todo. He cerrado los ojos durante un instante y he respirado hondo. Entonces la he visto. La base del iceberg. Ahí estaba. Potente como la luz de un faro.

Qué difícil es hablar así, sabiendo que todo lo que no sea hablar de lo que realmente importa es simplemente ruido. Huecos a rellenar.

The truth was much more beautiful.

Let me tell you what the problem is, Brik. Even if you knew what you want to know, you would still know nothing. You ask questions, you want to know more, but no matter how much more I tell you, you will never know anything. That's the problem.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

There is nothing that can, in the dark become true

Sensazione meravigliosa. Di quando il destino finalmente si schiude, e diventa sentiero distinto, e ormai inequivocabile, e direzione certa. Il tempo interminabile dell'avvicinamento. Quell'accostarsi. Si vorrebbe non finisse mai. Il gesto di consegnarsi al destino. Quella è un'emozione: Senza più dilemmi, senza più menzogne. Sapere dove. E raggiungerlo. Qualunque sia, il destino.

In the letter, Agnese's scribe, after complaining about how unclear the previous message was, went on to describe, in an almost equally clear manner, what he called the tremendous story of that person.

Sometimes, however, a man can grasp this without being a great metaphysician, when he is still fresh to the problem; and it is only by discussing it, and hearing it discussed, that he becomes incapable of understanding it.

If stupid people didn't insist on thinking they were smart, the world would be a lot simpler.

You ever hear that expression 'If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck'?

I always wanted to watch with my own eyes without having my judgement swayed by the filters of others.

For me it's been more important to plan what I want to say, have a mental road map for the points I want to emphasise, and then try to maintain my train of thought.

Saber lo que es posible, establecer unas expectativas realistas y comunicarlas con la suficiente claridad para que tu equipo te siga, en especial en un entorno en el que todo el mundo quiere resultados inmediatos, es una de las aptitudes para el liderazgo más difíciles de conseguir.

I just knew. There was no movie ending. There was only an ending.

Maybe the crazy people are the only ones who know the truth.

There was a moment of clarity - a calm in the eye of the storm, where the sun shined in, and the rain had ceased. But within moments, the calm subsided, and the world came crashing down.

Being part of any solution means taking action. And taking action involves more than just dreaming, no matter how vivid, how real, one's dreams appear. Whether dreaming or awake, when we are prisoners of our thoughts, we can't always see very clearly through the bars of our metaphorical prison cell, let alone take action.

What good was a truth that could be perceived only through delusion?

It's much like writing an essay or including autobiographical content in fiction—to succeed, it requires an ability to be coldly impersonal about yourself and your state, so as not to cloud what is there with what you want to see.