Quotes About Clarity

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

The game has slowed down for me. It's so much easier than it was. I feel like I see things better, and I can take advantage of what I see.

If you want to be successful when you play, you have to be free in your mind, and that happens if you know that everything is taken care of - you just focus on the football.

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

I don't like the whole off-and-on thing. I don't like 'taking a break.' Either you're with me, or you're not. And that's how I kind of deal.

Sometimes it's great when, you know, you're sitting down to watch a straightforward story, and you know how it's going to go, and you know how it's going to end. That's a fairy tale.

If you are going to believe in the fairy tale of 'Mr. Right,' then you need to keep everything in perspective. Know the things that make you happy. Know the things that enable and/or hinder your growth.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Acting is a talent, but I like to see the whole picture.

Beyonce has very clear ideas - she knows exactly what she wants. The thing which she then also has over other celebrities is that she has an amazing voice. She's incredibly talented, and she's an amazing dancer - she's complete. Few are like Beyonce.

I haven't really got any hidden talents.

I don't have any special skills or any hidden talents. I don't.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

I don't talk in ifs.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business - just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I'm an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you're being compromised.

All of the coding and hacking stuff that we do and I talk about, I always have them explain what it means so I know what I'm saying.

One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.

Usually, I prefer not to clarify anything that is being talked about me, but when it goes out of limits, I reply.

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

I am a better listener than talker - but that's partly because I believe rows are often caused by saying things you haven't thought through properly.