Quotes About Clarity

Do not trust anybody but yourself. If people want to help you, fine. Put it on paper and understand exactly what every word says.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don't want to drag anything in there that doesn't need to be there.

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.

I don't think I've had a rocky love life. I'm just trying to figure out what I want.

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

When I'm describing wartime activities or violence I don't want to be too ornate, to prettify the picture. Once we trace them to the present, the prose becomes denser.

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

I think people hear the question they want to hear.

The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.

I'm very clear about what I want to say. I have a great team and it's going well. I have a feeling of maturity.

I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.

Pro-Tip: Ask for one clear action per panel. Don't ask your artist to do two, three, or more things in a shot. You want those? Add more panels.

It's not for any purpose such as religion, health, or things like that, I just never felt I had the need or want to drink or do drugs.

I think I have a very clear vision of what I want things to look like.

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.