Quotes About Clarity

Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.

We cannot stop what we cannot see.

I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.

My view is that we cannot be ruled by fear. When we do that, we are not making ourselves see. We are not thinking things through. We are not looking at what works.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

If our psychology seems crude and weak in what it can say about the great human experiences, it is better to make that clear and to mark where we must go than to ignore it.

By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.

When I get onto the pitch, I block out everything around it, and I really focus on the pitch.

I understand what sabermetrics get across, and what they're getting across is to keep it simple. Especially for me, as a pitcher, that's something that helps me - finding ways to keep it simple. Numbers can only tell so much.

It's having the confidence to go out there and say, 'You know what? I need to go out there and throw those pitches where I need to throw them,' and make it as simple as that.

One of the pitfalls of a romantic comedy is that you know how it's going to end.

Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

I prefer the plain and simple sentences: the ones that you don't notice because you're so interested in what's happening to the people and events that the sentences are creating.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.

The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.

I am a woman, I am a minority person, and I speak in a very plain way. And I think that reaches people.

When you seek to do something, if you don't know the whole game plan, you're usually going to work against yourself.

I really liked the idea of focusing on one thing for, hopefully, a long time to come. I also like the idea of a consistent lifestyle, as opposed to not really knowing where on the planet you're going to be at any given moment.

People don't know what they are doing most of the time. They don't know what they want. It's only in 'the movies' that they know what their problems are and have game plans to deal with them.