Quotes About Clarity

So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.

I write books to open people's minds, to present new perspectives, to make people realize that what they think is obvious is not so obvious, that you can look at a trivial situation from a different angle and suddenly reveal other meanings and levels.

Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of a person and have trouble seeing the real thing.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.

Whenever I was troubled and confused, I always depended upon my father to give me an objective perspective.

But I can't stress enough how much talking helps. I was so reluctant at first; I didn't think it would help. But even if there's no answer to your troubles, they will seem so much smaller once they leave your head.

I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

The public wants to know that their political leaders will stay true to the promise made to them that Brexit means Brexit.

I meditate. I need that time to stay true to who I am.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.