Quotes About Clarity

By the feminine principle I mean everything vulnerable, interior, powerless, subtle, personal, intimate, and relational. By the masculine principle I mean everything clear, rational, linear, ordered, in control, bounded, provable, and hard. Both the feminine and masculine are good, but they must balance each other.

aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.

La verdad no sirve como sustituto de una buena respuesta.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

people confuse power with will because so few of them have the foggiest idea what they want. Absent any knowledge, will remains impotent. A limp dick, as it were." She regarded him, eyebrow arched. "The lucky few who happen actually to know what they want are said to have will-power.

There was something about educated people that made it impossible for them to admit when they didn't understand something.

No. Simplicity and justice require that thought and deed not be carelessly elided.

Grace believed that those who could see their duty clearly were required by God to do the heavy lifting for the morally blind. Where

Como yo era niño, toleraba poco el misterio y la imprecisión, de modo que andaba pegado a mi madre todo el tiempo.

What did it mean that he had so little access to something as straightforward as what he really wanted?

people cling to folly as if it were their most prized possession, defending it, sometimes with violence, against the possibility of wisdom. It

More painful than her naivete is the fact that she doesn't believe herself to be naive. Should you make the mistake of asking her why she's doing something so stupid, she'll explain it to you.

the worst errors in judgment often result from imagining we understand what has escaped us entirely.

Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Shaking settles and roots.

High performers pick the shortest path to the right evidence to make decisions that matter.

If we don't know what we do and why we do it, everything else will look like a possible option.

Awareness is the first objective - not action and change.

The puzzle of performance becomes much simpler when the bar is visible each day.

When the performance system is made clear, decision-making becomes more accurate.

Conviction is knowing what to add and what to remove for a performance system we fully understand.

Só te suplico que não subas tão alto que eu te perca de vista

How many of us never find a way to say the one thing we must?

Insight is the understanding that comes from self-awareness.

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.