Quotes About Clarity

I'm slow with a new idea, and want to think it over alone, where I'm sure it's the idea and not the man that's getting me.

Do I situate myself in an environment that fosters recollection, that fosters calm, that allows me to see the value of things? Piles do not allow me to see the value of things. So what kind of space do I live in?

One of his Prayers of the Faithful was always "for those who are misunderstood.

when the mind is full, the room ceases to be empty

Non siate timorosi di parlare, quando sapete di essere nel giusto. La paura non è mai stata fonte di sicurezza. Parlate chiaramente e lottate per i vostri diritti, finchè potete.

Non siate timorosi di parlare, quando sapete di essere nel giusto. La paura non è mai stata fonte di sicurezza. Parlate chiaramente e lottate per i vostri diritti, finché potete.

That's what Harold said." "Harold—

Part of the value in asking naïve questions, Bennett says, is that it forces people to explain things simply, which can help bring clarity to an otherwise complex issue. "If I just keep saying, 'I don't get it, can you tell me why once more?,' it forces people to synthesize and simplify—to strip away the irrelevances and get to the core idea.

or flashlights that, in the words of Dan Rothstein of the Right Question Institute (RQI), "shine a light on where you need6 to go.

one of the most important things a leader can do is project a clear and distinctive point of view that others can follow. But that clear vision is arrived at, and constantly modified and sharpened, through deep reflection and questioning.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life–so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!

Your greatest strength is knowing what you cannot do.

Anger will destroy you faster than any turtle. Anger robs the mind of its eyes of reason. And you live by your mind. We are weaker than the buffalo and slower than the horse. Our nails are not so sharp as the lion's. But where we walk, we rule. The difference is our minds. Anger clouds our minds.

Chiun had often warned him against thinking too much, lest his greater senses be dulled to the subtleties of the moment.

There is nothing in this world so hard to get at as truth, and there is nothing in this world but truth that I care for.

Simplicity–or rather discrimination of vision–is the trademark of the true Post-Impressionist. He observes and then selects what is essential.

A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.''3 Allow God to speak that apt word to you by focusing on one main thought from your daily reading—not five, ten, or a baker's dozen. One thing.

The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another...

Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Wayne I once thought I had mono for an entire year, It turned out I was just really bored.

I know I am a writer because until I'm writing I don't know what I know.

In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.