Quotes About Clarity

When you have something that is bothering you, and then you articulate, take the time to really express it and see it clearly, to recognize. To acknowledge that is already a liberating energy.

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

The amount of money currently in your bank account is a fact. The amount you spend today is a choice. And the way you reconcile both is through clarity.

When you get a record deal, you got to be pretty headstrong, know your direction.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.

Maurizio is very clear with his ideas and that's good for me because I run, press high and recover the ball.

How do you recruit a player if you don't really know what it is that you are trying to do? How do you convince a player of the way you want to play if you don't have clarity yourself over why you want to do it?

I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.

I like to keep things deceptively simple, but hard-hitting. You can reduce everything to the perfect, essential harmony. It's what used to be done with earlier music like Gregorian chants.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'

The more simple my life is, the happier I am.

One thing that makes me very happy is to have a complicated idea and to feel that I've expressed myself clearly. I remember writing the ending to 'Happier at Home.' I wrote the entire book to build to that ending 'now is now,' and what I had to say was very abstract, and yet I felt satisfied that I managed to say what I wanted to say.

If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

We need to first clearly establish what our modern rules for behavior are and make sure those are clearly understood and communicated. That empowers both the people who experience harassment on any level, but also the people who are the perpetrators of harassment to absolutely understand what behavior is crossing the line.

Life is not hard. Life is very simple.

The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward.

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

If you can't envision where you're going, you'll have a hard time getting there.

One of the hardest things to do is to be present and open and clear about who you are and what you stand for. We all have issues with that.

One of the hardest things to do for business people and leaders is to keep the team focused on achieving the goal.