Quotes About Clarity

The desert always feels like a complete waste of time. It is only when we are able to look back that our desert experiences make sense.

With this approach, every message should have one central idea, application, insight, or principle that serves as the glue to hold the other parts together.

Nothing hinders morale more than when team members with separate agendas are pulling against one another. When this happens, it's usually because those in charge have not taken the time necessary to clarify the win for their team.

Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.

If anything has kept me on track all these years, it's being skewered to this principle of central focus. There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination. (emphasis added) As you evaluate your current leadership environment and responsibilities, what do you see that needs to be eliminated? What needs to be delegated? What would it "not be right" for you to continue doing?

The key to this approach is refusing to stand up and speak until you know the answer to two questions: •  What is the one thing I want my audience to know? •  What do I want them to do about it?

What is the one thing I want my audience to know? •   What do I want them to do about it?

It's been my experience that great leaders, in spite of a multitude of distractions, know how to keep things focused. They know how to inspire and motivate their followers to keep pushing "the main chance." They don't let side issues overwhelm them.17

our approach to communicating should be shaped by our goal in communicating.

Vision is a clear mental picture of what could be, fueled by the conviction that it should be.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

This is my truth, tell me yours.

Lo peor de la tristeza es que ciega y lo peor de la cólera es que ve demasiado.

Jumping to conclusions rarely gets us anywhere we want to be.

Ironing's nice and simple,' he said. 'I get all tangled up in words when I'm putting together those interminable papers....

The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties -- that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sight, nor with the mind's eye's visions, nor with madness.

Sometimes, after we lay ourselves down before HaShem, we simply know what is right.

He never made a statement unless he was certain of its truth

Trust in ADONAI with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

Briefer is better, so learn to write tight

Well, I suggest you sleep on it," said Aunt Zelda sensibly. "Things always look better in the morning.

Things," Aunt Zelda reminded everyone on the bridge, "are not always as they seem. Remember, the moon always shows the truth How we see it, is up to us to us, not the moon

What you mean this?" he asked. "You mean me? You mean Boggart?

Angus Stevenson