Quotes About Clarity

I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

I could give up my phone any day. I don't need it.

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.

People say that they can't leave their homes without their phones; well, I can.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

I don't like gimmicky pictures; I've always hated them. I like pictures that are very clear and clean, whether you're a great street photographer - somebody like Friedlander or Winogrand or Cartier-Bresson - or whether you're a portraitist, like Irving Penn.

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

The phrase that I use a lot is you've got to connect the dots and keep connecting them up to the finish.

If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concept films. Everyone can get hold of it. I don't think there's any harm in that at all.

There are times when I need to dig up the diagram for a type of satellite dish, for instance, but I just can't seem to phrase this need correctly. As a result, I'm inundated by advertising for satellite television and people's online customer reviews of such services when, in fact, I was only trying to figure out what a certain component is called.

Cleanliness is important, and more than that is the physical fitness to attain healthy body and mind.

I have always enjoyed explaining physics. In fact it's more than just enjoyment: I need to explain physics.

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

I've never been much into picking things apart.

Details create the big picture.

I'm looking to see what the bigger picture is.

Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

Sometimes you need to be aware of the bigger picture you are missing.

We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time.

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.