Quotes About Clarity

Your why is the sculpture inside the block of jade.

Anyone who can't tell the difference between an ordinary Bernie Sanders supporter and a Stalinist revolutionary, or between Donald Trump's average voter and a Nazi, is either willfully ignorant or needs to get out of the house more.

Rule 5. Tune out: Disconnect more from the unproductive debates.

John Adams's maxim: "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."1

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

"Excellent!" I [Watson] cried."Elementary," said he [Holmes].

To approach a poem as if it is a puzzle to be understood is to miss the point.

People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

I haven't been to Oxbridge. I haven't even been to a London art school. My qualifications are pretty meagre for such a brief, but I just trust in my sense of what I'm interested in and my mission of clarity.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

It's not about how much you make: it's about how good the quality is. You'll be better off as a company making fewer things and concentrating on those and how you bring those to market... in a very less cluttered way, even though the marketplace is more cluttered.

I'm very clear about my priorities - quality and credibility is important to me. A film and a character that lives beyond my years is important to me. People's love is important to me.

I've got no qualms in making my feelings clear when I need to.

There's not much simplifying. You gotta know what you gotta know. That's how the quarterback position is, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I think sports is a quest to find out what really is - not what perceptions are.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

If you didn't talk to me to write something, you're just making stuff up. You're going by what you think, what you're assuming. I leave it at that. Read it. Believe what you want. But at the end of the day, if you've got a real question, then just come up and ask me, and see who I am as a person.

Ask questions; don't make assumptions.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.