Quotes About Clarity

I don't want the void. I don't want fantasies. I want some- thing real—not another fragment of truth to puzzle over . . . .

Sometimes when learning comes before experience it doesn't make sense right away.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

You can't always understand something just because you did it.

if we try to read it as prediction of how that judgment will occur we turn it into a confused muddle and miss its real point.

Misinterpretations of Revelation often begin by misconceiving the kind of book it is.

O let us not be as the purblind world, that cannot see afar off ; let us never look at the grave, but let us see the resurrection beyond it(42).

Truth loves the light and is most beautiful when it is most naked. If you would not teach men, why are you in the pulpit? If you would teach men, why do you not speak so as to be understood?

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

la investigación revela que los equipos funcionan mejor cuando los miembros saben claramente cuáles son sus propias responsabilidades pero no tienen certezas sobre la manera como pueden alcanzar las metas del equipo.

Los grandes líderes casi siempre son unos grandes simplificadores, que reducen las discusiones, los debates y las dudas a sus elementos esenciales, a fin de ofrecer una solución que todo el mundo pueda entender". COLIN POWELL

El matemático francés Blaise Pascal describió muy bien este problema en su célebre frase: "Lamento haber escrito esta carta tan larga, pero no tenía tiempo para hacerla más corta".

los grandes líderes no solamente son capaces de simplificar sino que, además, pueden comunicarse con el público en unos términos universalmente comprensibles.

Without a sense of purpose to life, a sense of what is truly most important to us, we become like the ball in a pinball machine, bouncing away from fear after fear. When we have a clear purpose, we may feel afraid or encounter obstacles, but we will do what it takes to move through the fear and solve the problems in front of us.

Imagine yourself a teacher with your child in your classroom. Try emulating a teacher's clarity, directness, and expectations for an hour or so, and see what happens.

Practice telling your child your expectations and wishes in statements that declare rather than ask.

As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.

14. Song and Schwarz, "If It's Hard to Read, It's Hard to Do.