Quotes About Clarity

At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

I like short records in general that you can swallow in one sitting.

If you state the obvious long enough, other people will pick up on what you're talking about and examine it. And usually they'll swallow it.

I can't have friends in every port. I have to work very hard and be very clear about what I want to do. I cannot just swallow everything I am told. I have to decide what I want to become part of my luggage - and what I don't.

In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.

A lot of time, I'd spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want people to understand what's going on. It's also very lyrical, and the great thing about lyrical prose is even when you're not totally sure of the words, you can be swayed by the musicality of it.

Swear you'd rather die than use 'literally' as an intensifier.

If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.

People who know me know that I'm not going to open my mouth and say something if I don't mean it. I'm very short and sweet. I'm old-school when it comes to it: I say what I mean and mean what I say, and then get off of it. It's simple as that.

When something in the sweet science doesn't look right, most likely it isn't.

My boyfriend is not a swimmer!

The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

I try to keep it real simple. I try not to add a lot of frosting on what I'm doing. Just take the swing and don't muscle the swing, because if you get in the hitting position and you take the swing, I generate a lot more bat speed, and that works for me.

If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.

To increase our objectivity, we must learn to switch off the mini-movies. Objectivity requires us to be mindful, present in the moment, and experiencing what is happening without judgment.

I guess I feel like somebody flipped a switch, and the whole world is in Technicolor now.

I don't know what the switch is from being insane to sane. It could be a number of things, what I eat, drink.

Communication is something that I find if don't do, I will go missing, I won't be fully focused. If I'm constantly giving messages to the defenders not only do they know where they are but I am switched on and in the right position. It all links together.

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

Synthesis is like telling somebody how you really feel after carrying it around for months: the weight that pours like sand off your shoulders with getting clarity.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

In the previous chapter we discussed how a figure of speech fails when images are too farfetched or mixed, or when one image cancels out the other. The same principle applies to physical descriptions.