Quotes About Clarity

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

And once I opened up all that real estate where before I'd been holding anger and regret, I found a lot of things were simpler than I'd made them.

I'd been thirteen, not stupid, though a lot of people confuse the two.

Words and emotions are simple currencies. If we inflate them, they lose their value, just like money. They begin to mean nothing. Use 'beautiful' to describe a sandwich and the word means nothing. Since the war, there is no more room for inflated language. Words and feelings are small now - clear and precise. Humble like dreams.

There will be no magic, whatsoever. Magic is either a poverty-stricken necessity or a wealthy fantasy. We are in neither of those straits, and what cannot be explained will be left unknown.

Much of the deep depression that surrounds us in life has to do with this one thing — that we can't even see the smallest plainest objects.

it was important to figure out what things were worth doing---and then to just do those things, don't do any of the other ones. People will try to convince you, always they will try to convince you to do things you should on no account do. Negotiating these terrible pathways full of bad advice---it is the principal danger of youth. That and suicide.

We get offered so few real victories. It's a question I can't even really answer: what is the victory I want?

You prattle on when you should listen. You ask the questions as if the meaning of the question is obvious, rather than asking it in such a way that the person is removed past himself/herself to the place in which the answer resides. Are questions so obvious? I think not. Do not let yourself make them so.

If you FOCUS on your PRIORITIES---You ELIMINATE all of your CONFUSION.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Presenting a style on your Web site that's inconsistent with your style in other media doesn't just affect the audience's impression of that product; it affects their impression of your company as a whole. People respond positively to companies with clearly defined identities. Inconsistent visual styles undermine the clarity of your corporate image and leave the audience with the impression that this is a company that hasn't quite figured out who it is.

The time for hidden truths is over.

better than any person living there, and thought she knew what to

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. —OSCAR WILDE

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

You can look back now and see how you should have known, but you were focusing on the facts instead of the feeling.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask.

In relationships it is best to assume nothing.

If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.

The capacity to see and—equally so—blindness are not divisible. The critical faculty of the human mind is one: To believe one can be seeing internally but blind as far as the outside world is concerned is like saying that the light of a candle gives light only in one direction and not in all. The light of the candle is reason's capacity for critical, penetrating, uncovering thought.

la conoscenza ha inizio con la demolizione delle illusioni, la de-lusione [Ent-täuschung]

Real conflicts between two people, those which do not serve to cover up or to project, but which are experienced on the deep level of inner reality to which they belong, are not destructive. They lead to clarification, they produce a catharsis from which both persons emerge with more knowledge and more strength.