Quotes About Clarity

I think people understand things different when they get older. It's not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I'm just understanding things different. Better.

Sometimes you need to slow down to go fast.

There are three simple, essential steps to achieving a goal: Write it down: give it a what (clear description) and a when (timeline). Look at it every day: keep it in your face; soak your subconscious in it. Start with a plan: make the plan simple. The point of the plan is not that it will get you there, but that it will get you started.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is the definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." —Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

Be happy, and the reason will appear.

There is one quality which one must possess to win," writes Napoleon Hill in his all-time classic Think and Grow Rich, "and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is the definiteness of purpose,

Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

If I could understand everything the way I do now, I could make it all--and then it just stopped. Leaving me with that feeling like when you figure out something brilliant and profound in a dream, but you wake up, and all you remember is that you knew this amazing thing, and now it's just out of reach.

Shared documents aren't shared understanding.

The clean language and distinction between output and outcome was first made clear to me in a talk by Robert Fabricant called "Behavior Is Our Medium".

Documents usually describe what we need, but not why we need it.

We can both read the same document, but have a different understanding of it.

She looked at me like I was stupid and said to me one last time with an air of finality, "They're requirements." It was at that moment that I learned that the word requirements actually means shut up. For a great many people, that's exactly what requirements do. They stop conversations about people and the problems we're solving. The truth is, if you build a fraction of what's required you can still make people very happy.

Shared understanding is when we both understand what the other person is imagining and why.

The real goal of using stories is shared understanding.

That doesn't change the fact that it's really hard to walk through the jungle when you can't see." "It's not the jungle. It's the rainforest." "Same thing." "No, it's not.

Walking tends to unravel the knots in my thinking, and I'll always recommend a leisurely stroll or even a brisk one around the block to alleviate almost any kind of mental stress.

If you don't know your passion, it confuses your mind, not your heart.

I told him point-blank so there would be no mistake: This person he wanted to know better did not exist; I was who I seemed to be from the outside. That would never change.

Some things you can be so close to that you never grasp their true nature.

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

Was he the woman with no clue where the ant was or the ant, unaware it was on the woman?

You can't trust how I'll get somewhere, but you have to trust I know where I'm going. I always know where I'm going.