Quotes About Clarity

From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: 'Tough' and 'Competent'. Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for.

I felt as if I were watching myself from above, unable to comprehend the happiness of the people around me.

Blink, and you'll miss your treasure. Blink again, and you'll realize that the truth you thought was completely hidden, has materialized some ungainly part of it revealed under new conditions.

Leventhal's last quote is the one that rolled around in my head during the hour-long drive home: "Confidence," he said, "is what you have before you understand the problem.

When someone tells me a piece of the truth which has been withheld from me, and which I needed in order to see my life more clearly, it may bring acute pain, but it can flood me with a cold, sea-sharp wash of relief.

My visionary anger cleansing my sight.

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

Yet we can't wait for the undamaged to make our connections for us; we can't wait to speak until we are wholly clear and righteous. There is no purity, and, in our lifetimes, no end to this process.

Fog in the mornings, hunger for clarity, coffee and bread with sour plum jam. Numbness of soul in placid neighborhoods. Lives ticking on as if.

to understand is always an ascending movement; that is why comprehension ought always to be concrete. (one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.) —Simone Weil, First and Last Notebooks

Passion without focus can lead you astray.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

I'm not passive aggressive. If something bothers me, I think about it, then I act on it. I express it.

I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.

A good pastor knows when they can't put two sentences together.

You won't ever get clarity in life. You have to overcome the hazy path yourself.

If you can't say where you're going, you're not going to get there. And I've known all along where I'm going, and sometimes the road takes a few curves that you didn't see, but you've got to stay the path.

I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you're doing.

While I enjoy it, I will continue to go onstage. While I contribute something, fine. I don't want to be dragging my feet. I don't want to become pathetic, but I think I will be lucid enough. I'll know when to stop.

My favorite question is 'Why?' I think it can be really helpful - I also think it can be annoying to people at times; I'll admit that. But I really do try to understand why are we approaching it this way, does it makes sense, is this the right answer, why is it the right answer, are there other paths to getting there, could those be better.

We don't have to wonder or drift with society; the Lord has a very strong and clear pathway of what is right and where blessings come from.

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.