Quotes About Clarity

They keep telling you what it is not, but never tell you what it is.

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

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." ? Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

An honest man does not desire until he has identified the object of his desire. He says: 'It is, therefore I want'. They say: 'I want it, therefore it is.

The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I tell you what I want you to do but because I articulate and justify what you want to do.

The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

Breath is the king of mind.

Yes how the mind arranges itself, tries to sort things into orders, is perturbed if things are not sorted, are not in the right order, nags away.

I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.

The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you're doing is thinking.

What's certain is that I don't need the stress.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

My head was crammed with too many facts and too few answers.

It took a while to figure out that my problem wasn't a lack of a ten-point plan. Rather, it was my general inability to boil issues down to their essence, to tell a story that helped explain an increasingly uncertain world to the American people and make them feel that I, as president, could help them navigate it.

It was my compass; a direction I could point myself in every day and say this is who I am now, this is what I do. The store is your compass.

That's what science is about: seeing the exact same things that other people do, finding the units of measurement with which to describe those things, communicating in the fewest and most precise words available. What could be saner—or more sociable—than that?

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The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Beene-beene. The truest truth.

A bird in the hand loses its mystery in no time flat.