Quotes About Clarity

When I'm on the court, I feel all problems go away.

Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

I like to go out on my bike. That's when I do my thinking. Two or three hours on the roads - that's when you get time, and you can think without problems.

One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.

Writing, for me, is an extension of thinking - it's my way of processing, and only when I've gotten something down on the page have I thought through it fully.

There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.

It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.

For years, I wasn't feeling good about myself. My head wasn't clear. I was doing nothing productive.

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.

I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

Every woman wants and needs different things. It's always best when you're honest and you speak up. It's hard to read minds.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

When you're friends with someone, you can't just go out to dinner and say 'O.K., now this is a date.' You've got to do something very different.

There are a lot of times when people are diplomatic about things, and I'm not that type. I'm not afraid to say exactly what I mean.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

I am a direct person.

Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.