Quotes About Clarity

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose ... to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

So that's our approach. Very simple, and we're really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we're running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let's make it simple. Really simple." Apple's design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. "There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him," Cook said. "That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.

If you wish to find the unclouded truth, he told himself, do not concern yourself with right or wrong. Conflicts with right and wrong are a sickness of the mind. The

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

Instead of filling in the blanks, I wanted to be blank and be filled in.

We learn to understand why our addled minds seize so little with precision, why they are caught up and tossed about in a kind of tarantella by headlines and catch-words, why so often they cannot tell things apart or discern identity in apparent differences.

Yet in truly effective thinking the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.

There is economy in this. For the attempt to see all things freshly and in detail, rather than as types and generalities, is exhausting, and among busy affairs practically out of the question. In

For if I when I speak am unable to make myself intelligible, then I am not speaking - even though I were to talk uninterruptedly day and night...Therein lies the distress and anguish.

Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.

Verwechsle nicht den Botschafter mit der Nachricht." (Storr der Schnitter)

You are actually doing creative work, and you may find what you really want rather than what you thought you wanted.

La clave para no caer en identificaciones falsas es aprender a discriminar la importancia real (objetiva, sin sesgos) de la importancia ficticia (exagerada y sin arraigo en la realidad) de las cosas o las personas con las que nos vinculamos.

Ingenio: sutileza, perspicacia, chispa, inspiración, mente despejada y libre, no atada a condiciones previas asfixiantes. Distanciamiento: alejarse de uno mismo, alejarse del "yo" y sus inseguridades, del ego y su vanidad, poner la lógica entre paréntesis y tomar lo paradójico y lo incomprensible como punto de partida para crear humor en cantidades. Ingenio + capacidad de distanciamiento cognitivo = salud mental

Apartar lo que sobra, desvincularse y decir adiós con la sabiduría de quien ha comprendido lo que no le conviene.

Para ver claro, basta con cambiar la dirección de la mirada. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY

Significa que a pesar de lo que sentimos podemos comprender que el otro no nos conviene;

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Cats ask plainly for what they want.