Quotes About Clarity

the lack of distraction in my life tones down that background hum of nervous mental energy that seems to increasingly pervade people's daily lives.

Put another way: minimalists don't mind missing out on small things; what worries them much more is diminishing the large things they already know for sure make a good life good.

tactic that works well for me is to be clear in my refusal but ambiguous in my explanation for the refusal. The key is to avoid providing enough specificity about the excuse that the requester has the opportunity to defuse it.

solitude is not a pleasant diversion, but instead a form of liberation from the cognitive oppression that results in its absence.

The first is the craftsman mindset, which focuses on what you can offer the world. The second is the passion mindset, which instead focuses on what the world can offer you. The craftsman mindset offers clarity, while the passion mindset offers a swamp of ambiguous and unanswerable questions.

The Art of Focus,

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," Blaise Pascal

what you need instead is a full-fledged philosophy of technology use, rooted in your deep values, that provides clear answers to the questions of what tools you should use and how you should use them and, equally important, enables you to confidently ignore everything else.

Kethledge, it turned out, relies on long periods alone with his thoughts to write his famously sharp legal opinions, often working at a simple pine desk in a barely renovated barn with no internet connection.

Un libro extenso es un gran mal.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Life is so much when we focus on what truly matters.

You don't have to explain something you haven't said.

Screaming our affirmations can make us sound like we're in doubt

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.

Forse un giorno si arriverà ad essere tutti sereni, e non capiremo più tante cose perché capiremo tutto.

How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul?

To truly love takes seeing truly.

I may not know where you come from, but that's not the same as not knowing who you are.

As if the years he had spent interpreting signs that no one else could even see had stretched him, pulled him out of focus.

Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.

Sometimes it is better to know an unpleasant thing than nothing at all.

I much prefer it when things are straightforward. They don't have to be simple or easy, but they do have to be fair.

Who helped mes see what I could not.