Quotes About Clarity

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

I've always had a very clear vision of what I wanted to do.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Maturity is wanting nothing but what we see with the purity of our heart.

Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

When I was younger, I could get that white-knuckle grip of holding on to an idea and not wanting to let it go.

Isn't it essential in any prelude to a war to be sure of your allies and be sure of your objectives?

I've started making my wardrobe a uniform: I find that the fewer options I have, the better my state of mind.

My wardrobe is minimalistic.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

I do not have AC, TV, microwave or a washing machine in my house.

We name something to make it real, to give it meaning.

One cannot fly in two direction at once. I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.

Do not bring violence to the sword. Do not bring heartbreak or anger or passion. You hold in your hand the steel of rationality.

My brother ," I said with emphasis, in case the snow had blinded her and she hadn't realized exactly who she'd been standing there with.

starve my distractions and feed my focus