Quotes About Clarity

Not quite understanding how, he knew what he needed to do. He didn't get it. The feeling—the epiphany—was a strange one, foreign and familiar at the same time. But it felt … right.

It scared him, too, but for some reason it was now the sole purpose of his life, the only thing that prevented his mind from slipping into that ever-expanding void of...dissonance.

Denying the truth would solve nothing.

What do you mean exactly? Sounds like you figured something out.

Well, this is hard because I don't know what you know.

It saddens me how little you grasp," the woman responded. "Truly.

He leaned his head against the wall and closed his eyes, for a moment wanting nothing but to fall asleep and never wake up again, or to do the opposite and kneel, bashing his head against the floor until it was over. But there was still that small sliver of clarity in his mind. He held on to it like a man clinging to a root on the side of a sheer cliff.

You're very observant, Jimmy," he said, and I thought it was pretty dumb to call it observant—it seemed obvious.

James Dashner The Death Cure

Be mindful even if your mind is full.

I was inside out of myself and something was given a life-mission to say to me hungrily over and over and over your moves are exactly right for a few things in this world: we know you when you come Green Eyes, Green Eyes.

We may not know what lies ahead of us in the future years, nor even in the days or hours immediately beyond. But for a few yards, or possibly only a few feet, the track is clear, our duty is plain, our course is illumined. For that short distance, for the next step, lighted by the inspiration of God, go on! ("Three Parables—The Unwise Bee, the Owl Express, and Two Lamps", Ensign, Feb. 2003, 8 - https://new.lds.org/ensign/2003/02/th... )

Pianist Clifford Curzon tells about his celebrated teacher Artur Schnabel cautioning his piano students: " 'Play nothing before you hear it'—or, 'First hear, then play.' He knew that only certainty of conception could produce clarity of presentation." And it is so in mining a text for its meaning and message.

Veliko bolj udobno se po?utimo, ?e je nekaj abstraktno ali zavito v simbolizem, kot ?e imamo to pred nosom.

To maximize the usefulness of realizations that may occur during your psychedelic voyage, it is invaluable to write out beforehand what you hope to learn, experience, understand, or resolve.

Much like Hemmingway. If something is easy to read, it's hard to write; if something is hard to read, it's easy to write. I want everything I write to be easy to read. I shall want every word to count. If it's described as simplistic, then I shall consider that a compliment.

ANTICIPATE CONTINUOUSLY. NOW PRECISELY PRE-POSITION MYSELF FIRST FOR SAFETY, THEN FOR TRACTION AND THEN FOR THE ABSOLUTE CLEAREST VIEW OF THE VANISHING POINT.

Why must an aphorism be brief? Because only a fool gives a speech in a burning house.

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

Maybe that's why young people make success. They don't know enough. Because when you know enough it's obvious that every idea that you have is no good.

Redundancy—inefficient by definition—serves as the antidote to confusion.

Science was constructed against a lot of nonsense

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

Perceiving Clearly The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. William James (1842-1910) Can we trust what we perceive? William James pointed to another attribute of attention: it helped augment the ''clearness of all that we perceive or conceive.