Quotes About Clarity

There are four categories of questions Emmily asks: 1. Can I please go to the bathroom? 2. Where is the bathroom? 3. Is it okay if I raise my hand and ask a question? 4. I don't understand anything you've said in the last thirty minutes. Could you explain it again? Also the last six weeks.

Meditation is not hard to understand. Anyone who knows how to worry knows how to meditate. Worriers are skilled in the meditation process but are meditating on the wrong kind of thoughts.

I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don't take the time to learn about that, then your perception is going to be your problem.

Heart of Glass

if our own mission and purpose is too cloudy, we make it difficult for our adversary to make a decision? The same thing goes with questions.

With both mission and purpose and pain you're in great shape, but without both you're wandering in the desert.

If we can state our mission and purpose simply and concisely, we can create the vision we want. If we get too complicated, too convoluted, we cloud the vision.

do." You must continuously analyze and ask yourself: What is my business? What is my mission? What is my purpose? As you set a valid mission and purpose in place, you will discover that the picture of what you are trying to accomplish becomes crystal clear and you eliminate all confusion.

You help create the vision, but you don't create the pain itself at all. The pain is just there. The doctor doesn't create your pain; she helps you see your case clearly.

I have seen that the failure to set manageable goals is as common a mistake as any other. People get confused because they don't have a step-by-step plan. They casually talk about goals and results, or objectives, but they don't really know how to distinguish between them.

the price that will be paid in any negotiation—is directly related to the clarity of the vision of pain?

Your ability to blank slate is directly related to your ability to rid yourself of expectations and assumptions, two very bad words in my system of negotiation.

EFFECTIVE NEGOTIATION IS effective decision making, plain and simple, and the foundation of effective decision making is a valid mission and purpose to guide it.

Visionary companies are so clear about what they stand for and what they're trying to achieve that they simply don't have room for those unwilling or unable to fit their exacting standards.

The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.

I don't know a fucking thing. That must mean I'm finally sane and that's an excellent place to start going crazy again.

it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.

Just as the terror is experienced as falling, the ecstasy is experienced as rising, soaring—but unchecked, it's the same as falling. So watch for that moment when clarity swerves toward the ecstatic. Catch yourself and return as soon as possible. I mean immediately. The further you soar, the further you fall.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

Strangely, when I totally emerged from this slump I couldn't comprehend how I had almost drowned it it.

Simple is good.

If you want to be fast and agile, keep things simple. Speed isn't the result of simplicity, but simplicity enables speed.

What they could tell from an imprint I could barely see was astonishing. "This one old man—short steps," they'd say, touching the ground with a walking stick; or "This is woman carrying baby;" or "This one Swapo—man with gun walks proud. You see?" "Ah, yes, mm-hmm," I nodded, seeing nothing I could remotely identify as a footprint.