Quotes About Clarity

Hyperbole is not easily dealt with. Usually, it collapses under its own weight.

I get so many big ideas while I'm running and such clarity while I'm lifting weights. And staying fit keeps me happy and positive.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

Death is the welcome cessation of idiocy.

Family helps you make clearer choices about things. Your priorities become clearer. Your obligations become clearer, and that is something I welcome.

Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.

I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

There's no real rush to answer the questions you face. To apply the best intellectual answer, you should clear your mind, stay calm, assess the question as well as you can to be comfortable, and then respond.

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

You just have to know yourself well enough to know what's important. And when you do that, things just don't get in your way. You don't allow them to.

If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.

Occasionally, well-intentioned legislation can fall apart because of a few misplaced words or technical language that was left out.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

If you want to send a message, try Western Union.

If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.

In a Western, you don't over-explain.

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

The practice of meditation can reveal to you more of your mental capacity.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

Get practiced at taking deep breaths before you speak. This will give you the space to stop, notice what was about to come out of your mouth, and course correct if needed.