Quotes About Clarity

Consciousness, not commitment, was a better, more accurate, less time-entangled word to

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Second thoughts are ever wiser.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

Another mistake is presenting too much background information, and doing so in the first few pages. Writers should begin their stories with the event that kicks off the story, and then spoon-feed us background information only when it's needed to understand what's going on." [ A Conversation with Evan Marshall ( Writers Write , September 1999)]

But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds.

20/20 hindsight only proves you know how to polish a rear view mirror

Great illusions will always look real, but even that cannot escape the truth that comes with time. Time will tell.

The Laws of Ownership," she said and this time her face went positively red. "I never understood before but maybe… maybe that's what this… this feeling is all about." I nodded slowly. "Corbin said you would belong to me and I would belong to you. I guess I never really got it, either." I got it now, though. Got the fact that I wanted her with me always. I wondered if she felt the same way. Or if she ever would.

One must be frank to be relevant.

It's so important that we tell customers what's going on as best as we can. And we're trying to do that. We don't often know ourselves, for so many different factors, but reliability, flexibility, and information are the three critical customer service orientations.

I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me.

Over the years, we've developed a respect for each other in the roles that we play and we rely on that difference to recreate clarity for the audience.

I rely upon the directors to fill me in before a shot.

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.

It's important in any project to remain focused.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.