clarity Quotes

"The more honest you are with yourself, the more you will see the world as it is, not as you want it to be."

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

"Non-judgment does not mean that we don't see what is happening. It means that we don't add a story to it."

"Decide exactly what you want in every area of your life; you can't hit a target you can't see."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful."

"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

"Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"The closer you are to the truth, the more silent you become inside."

"Stillness is the key to, well, just about everything."

"People work better when they know what the goal is and why."

"To be a clear thinker, you cannot be a tribe member. Politics is the mind-killer."

"The closer you want to get to the truth, the more silent you have to be inside."

"Think clearly. Understand the basics. If you're memorizing advanced concepts without understanding the basics, you're building a tower of cards."

"Free time is where the clarity comes from."

"A clear mind leads to better judgment, better outcome."

"A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to do great things in this world."

"If you have a busy mind, you can't see reality clearly."

"If you can't decide, the answer is no."

"A clear mind leads to better judgment, better judgment leads to better outcomes."

"A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to do anything great in this world."

"The most important thing for any knowledge worker is to be able to think clearly."

"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"You can discard most of the junk that clutters your mind—things that exist only there—and clear out space for yourself."

"That I received clear and frequent impressions about living according to nature, and what kind of a life that is, so that as far as depended on the gods, nothing hindered me."

"Do not hide unwanted things in the fog."

"I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful."

"You have to have a clear vision. You cannot have a hazy vision. You have to know exactly where you want to go."

"Good prose is like a windowpane."

"Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential."

"There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right."

"Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple."

"If you can't explain what you do to your grandmother, that's a problem. But if you can't explain it to a grad student, that's also a problem."

"Great communication is not about saying what you think. It is about ensuring others hear what you mean."

"Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past."

"When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution."

"Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious."

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

"You don't need more time, you just need to decide."

"Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them."

"Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not."

"Suffering is a moment of clarity, when you can no longer deny the truth of a situation and are forced into uncomfortable change."

"You cannot hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have."

"Clarity comes from the elimination of the unnecessary; you cannot see the path if it is covered in weeds."

"Clear thinking leads to clear writing, which leads to clear speaking."

"Our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."

"The most successful leaders are those who can synthesize complex information into simple actions."

"Confidence comes from having a clear mind and a focused purpose."

"If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere."

"Out of clutter, find simplicity."

"Clarity about what matters provides the foundation for a happy life."

"Do not let yourself be guided by the feeling of lust or love."

"Where there is no vision, the people perish."

"If you have more than three priorities, you have no priorities."

"Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind."

"The ultimate goal of all knowledge is self-knowledge."

"The mind is like a mirror; it should reflect whatever passes before it without being stained by it."

"Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you."

"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want."

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

"You need the confidence to ignore the noise and focus on the signal."

"By learning to use a variety of mental models, you can overcome your natural biases and see the world more clearly."

"The clarity of your purpose will determine the quality of your life."

"Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't."

"Ego clouds and disrupts everything."

"Do not, under any circumstances, depend on a partial feeling."

"A business must be clear about its value proposition."

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

"Keep things simple. When things go wrong—and they will—complexity compounds the problems."

"A clear mind leads to a focused life."

"Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours."

"The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones."

"It is a luxury to be understood."

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"Acceptance of the present moment allows for a clear-headed action to emerge."

"A mind filled with turmoil cannot be cleared by force. Like a jar of muddy water, you must leave it alone, and clarity will return on its own accord."

"Don't hide unwanted things in the fog."

"A great leader simplifies the mission so everyone knows exactly what to do."

"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."

"A lack of clarity is a lack of courage."

"Journaling is the most important thing I do."

"The quality of our decision-making depends on the mental models in our heads."