Quotes About Clarity

But for what it is worth, I don't think affirmations are sensitive to exactly how many times you write them, whether you use a keyboard or a pen, whether you throw away the paper you wrote on, how many weeks you do them for, or any other detail. I can't imagine the process of affirmations—if it works at all—is sensitive to the little details. I think a deep and consistent focus on what you want is all that is required. But that's just my gut feeling.

it helps to see the world as math and not magic.

Mental prison: The illusions and unproductive thinking that limit our ability to see the world clearly and act upon it rationally.

My main job for the past few decades has been creating Dilbert. Making comics is a process by which you strip out the unnecessary noise from a situation until all that is left is the absurd-yet-true core.

Our Father GOD is the measure by which we know the shortcomings of earthly dads and earthly clergy; for their vocation is to be His image on earth. GOD allows them to fail so that we might seek perfect fatherhood in Him.

Good plans almost never contain the word somehow.

Sometimes you're just too close to something to see it clearly. To see it for what it really is. It's like you've got your face pressed to it, and all you can see is the small points. The things you want to see.

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

There was a long pause. Um, I'm afraid I don't know the word in English. The word for what? I just said I don't know it!

But he is so exceedingly accurate, that, if he only fancies he has said a word too precipitate, or too general, or only half true, he never ceases to qualify, to modify, and extenuate, till at last he appears to have said nothing at all.

I prefer an injurious truth to a useful error. Truth heals any pain it may inflict on us.

How many new discoveries does not a person make when on some high point he ascends but a single story higher.

Where sense fails it's only necessary [1995] To supply a word, and change the tense.

How difficult it is to understand one another in this world.

Çocuklar ne istediklerini bilmezler. Bütün e?itimciler bu konuda ayn? dü?üncede. Ama yeti?kinler de bu dünyada çocuklar gibi sendeleye sendeleye dola??r, Onlar gibi nereden gelip nereye gittiklerini bilmezler. Gerçek ülkülere do?ru ko?maz, bisküviler ve çöreklerle avunurlar. Kimse buna inanmak istemez ama bence bunun kadar aç?k bir ?ey yoktur.

Ço?u kez dünyada olup olmad???m? bile bilemiyorum!

Su inquietud lo inclina hacia lo inalcanzable, pero percibe su locura sólo a medias.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Wisdom lies only in truth.

Para alcanzar todos los deseos, mira hacia allá, mira la luz.

un hombre bueno, incluso extraviado en la oscuridad, es consciente del buen camino.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

Daß die Kinder nicht wissen, warum sie wollen, darin sind alle hochgelehrten Schul- und Hofmeister einig; daß aber auch Erwachsene gleich Kindern auf diesem Erdboden herumtaumeln und wie jene nicht wissen, woher sie kommen und wohin sie gehen, ebensowenig nach wahren Zwecken handeln, ebenso durch Biskuit und Kuchen und Birkenreiser regiert werden: das will niemand gern glauben, und mich dünkt, man kann es mit Händen greifen.

a man wholly under the influence of his passions has lost his ability to think rationally, and is regarded as intoxicated or insane.