Quotes About Clarity

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

At least twice a week, I pause in the rush of work and have a meeting with myself. (If I were part of a team, I'd call a team meeting.) I ask myself, again, of the project: "What is this damn thing about?" Keep refining your understanding of the theme; keep narrowing it down.

This is what I feared for Michael. That his generation, so strong, so well made, so bright and aware beyond its years, would compare itself to us in envy, envy of the clarity of our challenges and the brutish obviousness of our enemies.

All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion.

We glide about in a daze, disconnected from our reason.

In this book, when I say "Don't think," what I mean is: don't listen to the chatter. Pay no attention to those rambling, disjointed images and notions that drift across the movie screen of your mind.

Lately it seems there are mysteries everywhere, as if you've only just opened your eyes.

It's always easier to see a lack of wisdom in others than it is to see it in ourselves. That's why we must pray daily for wisdom.

Your prayers may appear to go unanswered for many reasons. God may simply be giving you the answer that you are to wait. It could be that some sin in your life is clouding your communication with Him.

Lord, show me how to gird up the core of my being with Your truth so that I don't fall into deception of any kind. Teach me to not only know Your truth, but to live in

Knowing the truth liberates us from all possibility of deception and illuminates any darkness in our life.

Lord, speak to me about Your will for my life so that I can always walk in it. Your will is a place of safety and protection for me, and I need to know I am headed in the right direction. Help me to hear Your voice speaking to my heart telling me what to do, especially with regard to the decisions I need to make each day of my life.

It's possible." Just. "She could have sent him the original." "You said she didn't make any phone calls or mail anything." "I said I didn't know that she did.

The trade-off is a surety of purpose that eludes so many people living in today's world of constantly shifting values and expectations. "We feel like we are the only people on earth walking around with a sense of purpose. We feel we know who we are and where we are going.

The truth isn't always nice. It isn't always small enough to absorb at once. Sometimes the truth washes over you and threatens to take you right down with it.

Life is simple. You're the one making things complex.

My own mystery, unplumed, undetected, was sorted into files that were neatly labeled but really didn't say much.

There were pieces missing yet but they would fall into place and then maybe the whole of it would make sense.

What I wanted was to bang by forehead against the steering wheel till it bled. Maybe the self-inflicted pain would help me clear my thought process.

There are moments in every investigation when my speculations about what's possible cloud and confuse any lingering sense I have of what's actually true. I wanted to check out my intuitions. The

Sometimes when you try too hard," Aqamdax explained, "things get tangled, and the only way to untangle them is to let go.

It is better to know than to be caught between hope and fear.

without emotion to guide us, we have no compass. We are bereft of direction and have nothing to move us toward one option rather than another. We are stuck pondering all the possibilities.