Quotes About Clarity

Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.

I am a man who fasts until I see what I want.

She must have perceived how one could darken and make invisible or at least distant what is unhappy or dangerous in a life; I think her eventual skill with limelight and fictional thunder allowed her to clarify for herself what was true and what was false, safe and unsafe.

The right ending is an open door you can't see too far out of. It can mean exactly the opposite of what you are thinking.

I don't think clarity is necessarily truth. It's simplicity, isn't it?

Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

Intotdeauna si-a dorit cuvinte, le iubea, crescuse printre ele. Cuvintele ii dadeau claritate, ii ofereau o logica, un tipar. Pe cand eu simteam ca vorbele indoaie emotiile ca pe niste nuiele inmuiate in apa.

I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read so much into hardly anything at all.

It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to be able to do one thing at a time, one thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly. Unitasking.

By the grace of this forgetting, we temporarily shelve our inherited ways of looking and see things as if for the first time

its power to imbue everything in our field of experience with a heightened sense of purpose and consequence.

The mystical journey seems to offer a graduate education in the obvious.

There is no sin but ignorance.

The greatest sin of the academic left is that it has become fundamentally aristocratic, writing in bizarre jargon that makes cliches seem abstruse. If you can't explain your ideal to a fairly intelligent 12-year-old, it's probably your own fault.

If you're gonna sing, sing 'em something they can understand.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

Singapore's not a very big country. They speak with one voice, and they have a clear idea of what their regulatory environment should look like.

There is the perception that the government's handling of the Covid-19 crisis has certainly not included adjectives that are more commonly associated with the Singapore government, such as clarity and decisiveness.

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

I'm not a French singer.

If I don't understand something properly, every single component, it really bugs me.

You just wake up every single day with a clear mind and basically just have fun and be positive, because God knows what could happen, you know?

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.