Quotes About Clarity

I cleared my throat and found my voice then, like a coin suddenly in your pocket that'd been missing when last you looked for it. Ernesto's

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

I affect not reserves which I do not feel. I will not amuse you with an appearance of deliberation when I have decided. I frankly acknowledge to you my convictions, and I will freely lay before you the reasons on which they are founded. The consciousness of good intentions disdains ambiguity.

Perspicuity, therefore, requires not only that the ideas should be distinctly formed, but that they should be expressed by words distinctly and exclusively appropriate to them.

Here, then, are three sources of vague and incorrect definitions: indistinctness of the object, imperfection of the organ of conception, inadequateness of the vehicle of ideas. Any one of these must produce a certain degree of obscurity.

There are so many things that seem doubtful because we do not bring the test of the highest motive to bear on them. Complications would fall away when we only wished to know and be like Christ.

Her life was a failure because she never focused on anything in particular. She didn't know how to concentrate her attention.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. False Eloquence, like the Prismatic Glass, Its gawdy Colours spreads on ev'ry place; The Face of Nature was no more Survey, All glares alike, without Distinction gay: But true Expression, like th' unchanging Sun, Clears, and improves whate'er it shines upon, It gilds all Objects, but it alters none.

The fool is happy that he knows no more

Las palabras son como las hojas; cuando abundan, poco fruto hay entre ellas.

Love passed, the muse appeared, the weatherof mind got clarity newfound;now free, I once more weave togetheremotion, thought, and magic sound.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective.

Bir ressam için en ideal olan?, Pantheon'un *oculus'ü gibidir. Yüksekten gelen ???k modelin yüzüne, hatta o anlams?z çirkin yüze bile, tatl? bir hava, sanatç?n?n istedi?i biçimde i?leyece?i bir tür güzellik katacakt?r... *oculus: (Latince) Mercek, cam.

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

If only men were like New York taxi-cabs and had a light that they can switch on when they're interested and off when they're not available. Then you'd know exactly where you were and you wouldn't have to worry about getting it wrong and being horribly embarrassed. --- Lucy

It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.

We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late.

My theory is that's why our eyesight goes as we get older: to protect us from seeing ourselves in sharp focus.

La ponctuation, ce n'est pas de l'orthographe, c'est de la pensée.

The Light Stays Bright When it doesn't Avoid the Shadow.