Quotes About Clarity

I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.

One thing I'm super aware of in my music when I'm writing is: 'Am I overcomplicating this?' I'll write a song about some deep existential quandary and explore all these dumb thought waves, and then think 'Is it effective to say that? Or is it effective to say one simple thing that communicates the feeling better?'

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Simple goes a long way.

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

I always knew the way in was Bruce Wayne. It wasn't Batman. It was never Batman. That was the key.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and also more aware of the ways in which I'm capable.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.

The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.