Quotes About Clarity

You see what you expect to see. You see what you have the labels to see. You see what you have the skills to manage. Everything else is a blur.

Expecting people to read your mind hardly ever gets you what you desire.

Sometimes the waters of our spirits are churned and murky, and it is difficult to tap the reservoirs of our innate wisdom and knowledge. But the waters will settle as we do. Quietly and gently encourage yourself to go inside. Clarity will come.

She is just straight all the way up and down, including her nose and mouth and hair.

I always knew I had no small talk, and now I know I've got no big talk either.

In what world are you living?" "The one you're in, of course.

They are the abridgments of wisdom.

Sight is about contrast. You cannot see an object if there is nothing to contrast it against.

Life is like a puzzle, you do it correctly you come up with a clear picture.

Você precisa criar sua própria estratégia pessoal para menos confusão, para parar de pensar que precisa gastar dinheiro que não possui em coisas que não precisa para impressionar pessoas que nem gosta.

Just when you think you have everything figured out, you discover you know nothing at all.

Words begin as description. They are prismatic, vehicles of hidden, deeper shades of thought. You can hold them up at different angles until the light bursts through in an unexpected color.

John Berryman, put it, "Something has been said for sobriety, but very little.

One of Karen's favorite authors...wrote a book that, once Karen had read it, enabled her to analyze her feeling-states as clearly as if they were passing through prisms, that didn't just make them visible but broke them down into all their components. Once you can do that, it's a challenge to not view other people as blind.

Sometimes I don't even be realizing what's really going on. So sometimes you just gotta take a step back and soak it all in.

I'm sober now and very happy.

I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.

Being sober and clear-eyed changes everything.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

I will always remember the first show I did clean and sober... It was in New Mexico, in Albuquerque. I literally felt elevated, as everything was coming with such clarity.

When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus.

Girls like me more sober.

Being sober is not a struggle for me.