Quotes About Clarity

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

Those who sit furthest from the center of power, see it the clearest.

I wanted, more than anything, a chance to be simple, once again, as I was meant to be, and as I had been long ago, a long, long time ago.

but I didn't see the humor since I didn't know Maggie May from Sara Lee. I

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.

It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.

Then the auctioneer introduced himself [,,,,]. He started to speak into the microphone, a maddening, jammed-up sequence of words that crashed like bumper cars, after which everything sorted itself into some kind of sense again, and after the fact you could understand most of what he'd said.

Because he knew it was important for the truth to be told.

How can you expect me to go away with you, with this hanging over us. Just sort it out!

That was the trouble when you got obsessed with a case: you lost perspective, saw everything through the prism of the investigation.

her judgement had been spoton.

There was a sort of magic in his asking the right questions the first time, picking up the clues in a situation, knowing when it was time to move on.

the future depends on seeing reality clearly. But for some reason, we are easily manipulated and deceived.

I think Westerns are always so great for clearing out the clutter and the ambiguities, and getting right to the broad strokes of that kind of situation.

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Fearless means trusting your instincts and clarity of thought. Once you have made up your mind, don't be scared of what if.

My job is to make sure a client doesn't have any 'what if's - to make sure, when you look back, you don't say, 'What if I had done this? What if I had done that?'

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

Evil is whatever distracts.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Know who you are and stay true to it. Have a point of view, keep your head down when noise tries to drown out your inner voice, and whatever you do, keep pushing.

I don't mind have an uncomfortable conversation if those uncomfortable conversations can lead to a bigger dialogue and help us get to a better understanding of whatever it is we are discussing.