Quotes About Clarity

Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.

I try not to overthink things. If you think too much, that's when the mistakes come in. Keep it basic is what I've been doing well - winning my headers and making sure I win my one-v-one battles. Often, your natural instinct tells you whether to hold or go.

I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.

I definitely want to make it very clear to everybody that the educational institution that we have, the school that Will and I have, is not a Scientology school. And that, you know, I know there's been, you know, a lot of buzz around that idea and that it is not my desire to, you know, teach Scientology at all.

When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-productive way, I could make you feel vaguely insulted. And you'd have a right to be.

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

I can sit on a boat or a river bank and problems that seemed insurmountable just don't seem that important anymore.

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.

I am not too intelligent.

Making a film confusing does not make it intelligent.

Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.

I don't like intensely complicated coaching. I prefer to work things out by myself. A gentle hint is all I need, otherwise it's like finishing a crossword after someone has given me the answers.

To be true to a play, you can't add something that takes away from the author's intent.

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

My intention... isn't to create controversy.

I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.

I'm a big fan of intention. That's because I have learned first-hand the power of setting my intention on my goal and making all decisions based off of that intention.

Be honest with your intentions, the rest will follow.

One thing I've learned: My intentions are clear in terms of quality.

The interesting thing I realized writing the 'X-Men' is I always had a sense of where I was going.