Quotes About Clarity

I am slightly better at sleeping now during Test matches. I have a diary and I write things down, which helps. I write about decisions, a lot about opposition and stuff I want to say to the team so I am clear on the message I want to give.

I think I'm ever so slightly behind myself and I don't know what would make me feel in possession of all the facts.

I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.

I can't stand stupid, and I can't stand slow.

Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.

People started saying, 'Oh you know, he's quicker than he looks', and I'm like, 'What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I'm not really sure what that means.

When I've been playing my best golf, I feel like everything's so slow.

We paint a slow picture. You can see the brushstrokes. We don't get to the point, and sometimes when we do, our readers don't notice, in fact. It's so couched in nuance, it can fly right over a person's head. 'What was that you said? I couldn't quite make it out.'

Each book develops a strong organic shape. And when that shape is complete, the book is complete. I don't know where the end is. I don't start at the beginning. It's like playing Tetris in my head in a very slow kind of way. All the shapes join up.

I think you just learn to maybe slow some of the key situations in the game down.

I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.

Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I'm sayin.

Now I'm fast and under control. I can just play, seeing the game slower now.

Keep your world small, keep your focus on the thing right in front of you and slowly widen out that world-view.

Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.

When I write, I feel like an optometrist, constantly flipping between lenses and asking, 'Is this better? Is this?' Slowly, the work comes into focus.

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.