Quotes About Clarity

This is not rocket surgery.

Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.

Firstly, I have no idea what you're talking about. I run my diner. That's it. Period, full stop. I have nothing else going on the side. And secondly, even if I did, what have you got that I could possibly want?

But we're not buying camels. So

ask once, ask twice if you must, but for God's sake don't ask three times.

He was no longer young, and not yet old. Mentally and physically he was up there on a broad plateau of common sense and maturity and peak capability. He was not behind schedule. He was not speeding. He was not drunk. He

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.

after reaching the presidency I experienced a certain letdown. I had spent years climbing the mountain. When I finally made it to the top, I started to wonder why I had been in such a hurry to get there.

It is a funny thing but you can actually see improved mental health in the eyes

Without having navigated waters shallow enough for us to see bottom, we'll be easy prey to mystifiers who want to sell us radical metaphysical fantasies in the guise of science.

If you can't talk sense, don't talk at all.

boils down to

There is only what is and that's it. What should be is a dirty lie.

It's clear.

Never make a decision when you need to pee.

most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two

A pygmy upon a gyants shoulder may see farther than the [giant] himself.

Ever notice that when you lack sleep, things that seemed important before no longer seem to matter so much? Setting up and programming the coffeemaker so the coffee will be ready when I wake up the next day seems like a great idea at 9:00 p.m., but at 2:00 a.m.

Random events often look like nonrandom events, and in interpreting human affairs we must take care not to confuse the two.

After the event, of course, a signal is always crystal clear; we can now see what disaster it was signaling…. But before the event it is obscure and pregnant with conflicting meanings."6

The "floater" misses reality; the concrete-bound person misses understanding.

Clarity is achieved when concretes are united by a concept and a concept is seen to be a union of those concretes. The two gravest breaches of clarity are: a set of unrelated instances that causes too much pressure on consciousness and a floating abstraction untied to reality. These

The church needs to be so clear about its identity as the body of Christ that everything it does generates a gravitational pull toward the heart.