Quotes About Clarity

Does Obama create confusion on purpose?

Comedy comes from confusion.

If there ever has been any confusion about my sexuality, then you are someone that doesn't even know me!

Eliminate the confusion in your life.

You've got to eliminate the confusion in your life. And eliminate the excuses.

I said what I said before Congress because I meant every word of it.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

Once you clear out from your consciousness things that no longer matter, you're able to make room for other things.

As soon as I finish meditating, I get a beautiful feeling of expanded consciousness. When I'm in this headspace I can make so much progress in my writing.

Beautiful things comfort; they bring a real clarity and ease. We have to continue to make our environments beautiful - it's sort of like a prayer. If you surround yourself with beautiful things, you have a better life - one with more oxygen.

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.

I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me.

The trouble with listening is that so much of what we hear is noise, surrounding us all the time.

I try to use and, furthermore, strive to focus on the actual facts surrounding and impacting any issue.

I remember my first acting class: I was like, 'That's it.' If I know that I want to do something then I'm going to do it and there's no stopping me, whether it's if I want to take a movie part or don't, or eat sushi for lunch or don't. There's always a very clear goal. Once I figure out what I want that's it.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

My cognitive skills are a little suspect at times. It comes and goes on certain days. I can be sitting here and you might say what's wrong with him, and I'll figure out what I was saying and start going again.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues.

The truth sustains me.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and sustain.