Quotes About Clarity

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

I say what I need to, not a whole lot more.

When people look at one thing from one perspective, they certainly fail to get the whole picture, and that is the main reason for the majority of misunderstandings that sometimes lead to bloody confrontations.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

I always find it much easier when there's one person whose vision you're following, as opposed to many people.

When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: 'who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing?' To feel fulfilment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Politics is not an exact science. That's why in school I loved mathematics. Everything in mathematics was clear to me.

Rather than make 20 things and throw them at the wall and hope you get 6 that maybe feel like keepers, why not focus?

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

The thing is you can never sugarcoat anything, If you're going to tell a story, tell the truth. If you're going to tell something, why not tell it all?

You know you might know your intentions, but these are strangers who don't know you, never even met you in person. So you gotta hear each other out, and if you know those aren't your intentions and that's how it's being perceived, it's like why not make a change or alter it? For me, it was the name.