Quotes About Clarity

Regret can power your telescope, changing what you see.

Being busy is not the same as being focused. Being focused means being here.

It can be a bit of a puzzle, locating the single aspect of your life that isn't what it appears to be, the belief you assume you hold dear but that, in fact, you've never even questioned. It's hard to find what you don't know you're searching for.

the one thing that will finally make you feel you aren't missing something essential, such as the point.

It's amazing how drunk you can be without alcohol.

Have I sufficiently confused you? Good. Stay humble.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

I'll give you a hint. Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one.

I am not brave enough to be a coward, she said. I see the consequences too clearly

she had nothing to hide from him, nothing to keep unstated, everything was granted, answered, found.

Don't tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.

I always know what I want. And when you know what you want - you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth. Dagny Taggart

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

If you want my advice, Peter," he said at last, "you've made a mistake already. By asking me. By asking anyone. Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

She had forgotten every problem, person and event behind her; they had always been clouded in her sight, to be hurried past, to be brushed aside, never final, never quite real. This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope. This was the way she had expected to live—she had wanted to spend no hour and take no action that would mean less than this.