Quotes About Clarity

It Is Not about Controlling Thoughts, It Is about Guiding Thoughts

Scriitorul nu e nici un sfânt, nici profet care profeÈ›eÈ™te la porÈ›ile orasului; e un p?c?tos ca oricare altul, îns? ceva mai lucid È™i dotat cu un limbaj ceva mai precis pentru a descrie realitatea de neconceput a lumii în care tr?im.

They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.

Pay attention: what you need to know is usually in front of you. There are no secrets, just things people choose not to notice.

THE ELEVATOR TEST Know your solution (or your product or business) so thoroughly that you can explain it clearly and precisely to your client (or customer or investor) in 30 seconds. If you can do that, then you understand what you're doing well enough to sell your solution.

LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE Every now and then, take a mental step back from whatever you're doing. Ask yourself some basic questions: How does what you're doing solve the problem? How does it advance your thinking? Is it the most important thing you could be doing right now? If it's not helping, why are you doing it?

When we try to do more than one thing at a time, another deeper problem starts to develop. In the frenzy of juggling it all, we tend to shift our focus away from the things that matter and toward activities we don't really need to be doing at all. We

Laat die teks koud word. Die ou advies wat Elizabeth aan haar skrywers gee. Laat die teks afkoel, kry afstand, bekyk dit dan weer.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

J'ai reçu assez de dons intellectuels pour pouvoir tout sonder, tout aborder, tout saisir en formules claires ; on me croit supérieurement informée de bien des problèmes de la vie ; pourtant, là, tout au fond de moi, il y a une pelote agglutinée, quelque chose me retient dans une poigne de fer, et toute ma clarté de pensée ne m'empêche pas d'être bien souvent une pauvre godiche peureuse.

I can't really put it into words; in any case I am not yet as honest with myself as I should be and it is always hard to get to the bottom of things with words.

Dévorer les livres, comme je l'ai fait depuis ma plus tendre enfance, n'est qu'une forme de paresse. Je laisse à d'autres le soin de s'exprimer à ma place. Je cherche partout la confirmation de ce qui fermente et agit en moi, mais c'est avec mes mots à moi que je devrais essayer d'y voir clair. (45)

So let this be the aim of the meditation: to turn one's innermost being into a vast empty plain, with none of that treacherous undergrowth to impede the view. So that something of 'God' can enter you, and something of 'Love', too.

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

So understood, the art of archery is rather like a preparatory school for Zen, for it enables the beginner to gain a clearer view, through the works of his own hands, of events which are not in themselves intelligible.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong" is the warning posted by H. L. Mencken.

So watch your step. Use your head. Make the most of every chance you get. These are desperate times! 17 Don't live carelessly, unthinkingly. Make sure you understand what the Master wants. 18-20 Don't drink too much wine. That cheapens your life. Drink the Spirit of God, huge draughts of him. Sing hymns instead of drinking songs! Sing songs from your heart to Christ. Sing praises over everything, any excuse for a song to God the Father in the name of our Master, Jesus Christ.

Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer: "Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You've concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to ordinary people. Yes, Father, that's the way you like to work.

Such insinuated insecurities need to be confronted directly and plainly. It is not possible to drift unconsciously from faith to perdition.

You're talking nonsense, and noisy nonsense at that.

Don't waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the barren pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are. It's a scandal when people waste their lives on things they must do in the darkness where no one will see. Rip the cover off those frauds and see how attractive they look in the light of Christ.   Wake up from your sleep, Climb out of your coffins; Christ will show you the light!  

The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Why was it so scary to ask themselves one simple question: Why am I doing what I'm doing? Part of me understood the vortex, of course. Part of me understood that they couldn't stop, particularly if they'd enjoyed success, because if they did stop, they would stop being relevant. I understood. Completely.