Quotes About Clarity

You can achieve incredible progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal….This may seem basic, but it is amazing how often it is not done and how hard it is to get right.

In his famous essay "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell concluded with six emphatic rules, including "never use a long word where a short one will do" and "never use the passive where you can use the active." But the sixth rule was the key: "Break any of these rules sooner than saying anything outright barbarous.

What make the difference is correctly identifying and responding to subtler information so you zero in on the eventual outcome faster than others.

You must, although you know you won't like what you'll see.

Truth doesn't need elaboration or embellishment; it can stand on its own two legs. All the adornment in the world doesn't make the truth any more true.

This is a good place for thinking about your life, a few days in this place.

I still cannot tap on your walls and discover by the hollow or firm sounds which of your walls are merely decorative, and which ones hold everything up.

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

a writing in the sand which all may read but few understand." - Philip Jose Farmer in 'Riders of the Purple Wage

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.

I dislike a man who's not precise about what he wants to drink," said Maugham. "You can't rely on a fellow who's vague about his favorite tipple. If he's not precise about something he's going to drink then it's clear he's not going to be precise about anything.

They say eyes clear with age.

This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

They say eyes clear with age, As dew clarifies air To sharpen evenings, As if time put an edge Round the last shape of things To show them there; The many-levelled trees, The long soft tides of grass Wrinkling away the gold Wind-ridden waves- all these, They say, come back to focus As we grow old. - Long Sight In Age

Caught in the center of a soundless field While hot inexplicable hours go by What trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed? You seem to ask. I make a sharp reply, Then clean my stick. I'm glad I can't explain Just in what jaws you were to suppurate: You may have thought things would come right again If you could only keep quite still and wait.

Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

Elementary, my dear colonel,' she said. 'When every sensible explanation has been disproved, then whatever remains, however silly, must be the truth.

The most complex analyses grow beautifully simple as they become public objects.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

It is interesting that we instinctively make this connection when we talk of "being sensible" about taking wise actions or making wise choices. We also speak of arriving at a more healthy way of seeing and doing as "coming to our senses.