Quotes About Clarity

I can read the two of you as easily as I can a watermelon patch in broad daylight.

I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image... I'm standing still, and I can't find the image. - Toru

Cuando uno está rodeado de tinieblas, la única alternativa es permanecer inmóvil hasta que tus ojos se acostumbren a la oscuridad

You have let something out of the bag before you yourself knew what it was all about. That can be awfully dangerous

Telling people her name was always a bother. As soon as the name left her lips, the other person looked puzzled or confused.

Reality recedes until you can't tell who's sane and who's not.

Strangely transparent, they seemed like windows to a world beyond, but however long I peered into there depths, there was nothing I could see.

It was far too hot to think about complicated matters.

You're very clear about what you like and what you don't like, she said. Maybe so, I said. Maybe that's why people don't like me. Never have. It's because you show it, she said. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makes some people angry.

As far as I could see, she had no opinion at all about anything that was not set directly in front of her (and in fact, she was extremely nearsighted).

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes.

I don't know how to put it, but I just can't get it through my head that here and now is really here and now. Or that I am really me. It doesn't quite hit home. It's always this way. Only much later on does it ever come together. For the last ten years, it's been like this.

Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a piece of fiction together' 'Yeah, well, that's a whole different thing.' (from Honey Pie)

When you are used to the kind of life of never getting anything you want, you stop knowing what it is you want.

Mutual understanding is of critical importance. There are those who say that 'understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings

I've always enjoyed this time, early in the morning, gazing intently at a pure white canvas. "Canvas Zen" is my term for it. Nothing is painted there yet, but it's more than a simple blank space. Hidden on that white canvas is what must eventually emerge. As I look more closely, I discover various possibilities, which congeal into a perfect clue as to how to proceed. That's the moment I really enjoy. The moment when existence and nonexistence coalesce.

You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you. There is no need to hurry, but you will be better off, at some point in time, if you bring it outside yourself.

The things that his death gave rise to are still there, bright and clear, inside me, some of them even clearer than when they were new.

The task of writing consists primarily in recognizing the distance between oneself and the things around one. It is not sensitivity one needs, but a yardstick.

Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. Olga was absolutely right, Tsukuru thought as he sipped his wine. Not just to explain to others, but to explain to yourself. Force yourself to try to explain it, and you create lies.

I decided to go swimming. I don't know how to explain this, but I wanted to purge my body of something by exercising it to the limit. Purge it—of what? I spent some time wondering about that. Purge it of what? I didn't know.

In companies with healthy cultures, employees aren't kept in the dark; rather, they are supported in the belief that they are part of an exciting future. They come to work with a fire inside them, a result of clearly stated leadership and business practices that everyone explicitly understands.

When technical experts mystify their audiences rather than enlighten them, they lose support—and "no" is always an easier answer than "yes.