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Quotes About Clarity

You can always say it's magic if you don't understand it; and, who knows, you might be right.
~ Steven Brust
I have strong opinions about ambivalence.
~ Steven Brust
The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.
~ Steven Brust
I have something to tell you." "How, you have something to tell me?" "You have understood me exactly." "Well, I am listening." "Listening? Then, you wish me to tell you?" "Yes, that is it. I am listening, and therefore I wish you to tell me." "Shall I tell you now?" "No.
~ Steven Brust
Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.
~ Steven C. Hayes
Human beings always want explanations. They have to know everything about everything and they have to know it immediately.
~ Steven Cooper
Will You help me hear the song You're singing over all this noise?
~ Steven Curtis Chapman
It has long been said that the three hardest words to say in the English language are I love you. We heartily disagree! For most people, it is much harder to say I don't know.
~ Steven D. Levitt
if you're writing a memo or e-mail and begin a middle paragraph, "Most important …" you've written a bad memo or e-mail.
~ Steven D. Stark
Don't worry. I am like most people. I can keep my eyes and still see nothing.
~ Steven Erikson
When one loves all things of the world, when one has that gift of joy, it is not the armour against grief that you might think it to be. Such a person stands balanced on the edge of sadness – there is no other way for it, because to love as he does is to see clearly.
~ Steven Erikson
When one does not know what one seeks, caution is the surest armour.
~ Steven Erikson
A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.
~ Steven Erikson
Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.
~ Steven Erikson
Is that you?" came Shurq's voice from the darkness within. "Why yes," Bugg said, "it is." "Liar. You're not you, you're Bugg. Where's Tehol? I need to talk to Tehol.
~ Steven Erikson
The slower your path, the muddier your boots?' 'Even so,' Icarium said, nodding. 'Time is nothing like that.' 'Are you so certain? When we must wait, our minds fill with sludge, random thoughts like so much refuse. When we are driven to action, our current is swift, the water seemingly clear, cold and sharp.
~ Steven Erikson
I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.
~ Menachem Begin
I feel like the sky in my mind is bigger when I meditate. It helps you fight the classic battles we're all fighting: trying to find love, trying to find satisfaction in your career.
~ Jim James
If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.
~ Namie Amuro
I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
~ Twyla Tharp
When you're not sleeping, you're not thinking straight.
~ Judd Trump
Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.
~ Douglas Leone
I don't like making comparisons. You might say one slight thing, find yourself misinterpreted, and suddenly you're in trouble.
~ Carlos Tevez
Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.
~ Hedi Slimane