Quotes About Clarity

Submission to the power of the mature masculine energies always brings forth a new masculine personality that is marked by calm, compassion, clarity of vision, and generativity.

The Warrior traditions all affirm that, in addition to training, what enables a Warrior to reach clarity of thought is living with the awareness of his own imminent death.

Here is a difference between the Warrior and the Hero. The man (or the boy) accessing the Hero, as we've said, does not know his limitations; he is romantic about his invulnerability. The warrior, however, through his clarity of thinking realistically assesses his capacities and his limitations in any given situation.

The name "water filter" is misleading. The word filtered literally means only that the water has passed through a medium containing tiny holes or fine passageways that screen out suspended particles. When

Simplicity, like all virtues, is valuable because it is useful. I have come to understand that making life simpler does for our minds what getting in shape does for our bodies. It makes us feel more in control, more centered, more effective. And as with getting into shape, you have to want it sincerely, and you have to work at it consciously every day.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Oh my Petite,clearest of all God's creatures, still all air and nerve.

Yet why not say what happened?

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

action in an absence of information is wasted effort

Eisenhower insisted, every man and woman not on the front lines, must see this. "We are told the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for. Now, at least, he will know what he is fighting against."11 Patton

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities.

Vague statements are interchangeable.

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." ? Robert McCloskey

Dialogue concentrates meaning; conversation dilutes it.

If the scene is about what the scene is about, you're in deep shit.

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit.

they can't see the opportunity staring them in the face.

Most people have an opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it.

I could see the light was going on in his head.

Un bel giorno mi toccherà un colpo, uno di quelli che annientano una persona, e allora tutto finirà: finirà questo intrico, questo struggimento, quest'ignoranza, tutto, tutto, gratitudine e ingratitudine, menzogna e miraggi, questo creder di sapere e invece non saper mai niente. Però desidero vivere, non importa come.