Quotes About Clarity

A few fat files are better than a lot of thin ones.

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.

Next time I'll pat you on the freaking back for stating the obvious.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

I have said all along that I would know when it would be time to step down, and now is that time.

Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.

I'm not good with time. Like, if I ask you the time and you say A quarter to 2, I wouldn't know. Why can't you just say 2:30?

But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

Later it might see moronic, but at that time it all made perfect sense.

To give you an idea how well I was doing at the time I quit, I was the only one who knew I quit.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.

He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to get chaotic or crazy.

You can not define being exactly on time.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.

I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time.

"We don't take sufficient time to meditate." I get up early in the morning...five o'clock, when my mind and spirit are clear and rested. Then I meditate.

Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future; instead, we are focused on the present.