Quotes About Clarity

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

in wine, the truth

De rede biedt ons vele mogelijkheden tegelijk. De intuïtie kiest daaruit feilloos de beste. Wanneer je dit onthoudt kun je je niet meer vergissen en zul je altijd de juiste keuze maken.

Er wordt mij wel vaker verweten dat ik mezelf achter mijn voile verstop, maar het tegendeel is waar. Ik verstop de wereld. Ik heb een sluier voor haar neergelaten. Door die waas van kant en zijde oogt zij zoveel zachter.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why, post factum they appear so obvious.

We have been so busy perfecting the means of travel that we have forgotten where we wanted to go.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw — the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can't I say that, Willy?

There was a deep pleasure in simply knowing what happened to everyone at the end.

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

Empowerment comes from precision, precision, precision; from language that harpoons the exact meaning, the nuance, for the intended audience.

You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you. And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

Fakat sonra, geçen gecenin sudan maceralar? hakk?ndaki hafif gevezelikten sonra, en duru ruha bile bulan?k ve tehlikeli girdaplar sokabilecek o gizli, hemen hemen hiç sezilmeyen arzulara dald?lar ve hiç özlem duymad?klar? ve kaderin anla??lmaz rüzgar?n?n kendilerini, rüyada da olsa, bir defa savurabileceÄŸi gizli bölgelerden bahsettiler.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: 'Who's the third?

F]or a social theorist ignorance is more excusable than vagueness. Other investigators can easily show I am wrong if I am sufficiently precise. They will have much more difficulty showing by investigation what, precisely, I mean if I am vague. I hope not to be forced to weasel out with 'But I didn't really mean that.' Social theorists should prefer to be wrong rather than misunderstood. Being misunderstood shows sloppy theoretical work.

Poetry has a crucial role to play in our lives, society, and the world. It helps us slow down, hear clearly, see deeply, and envision what matters most in our lives."—Arthur Sze

The call to abandon illusions is a call to abandon a condition which requires illusions.

He died in 1952, and his last words were, "The Scriptures explain themselves.

Il capitano di lunga secca Mikko Heikkinen era fermamente convinto che una decisione importante e irrevocabile come quella del suicidio non andava presa a mente lucida, senza il conforto di un buon cicchetto.

Truth is in things, not in people, he remembered. But it needs us to be manifest.

Pues, desde siempre, ser lúcido y español aparejó gran amargura y poca esperanza.

Una cosa es una cosa, y otra cosa es otra cosa.