Quotes about Clarity

have a wonderful instinct about things.  They can discover everything except the obvious.

The truth is rarely pure

Whatever you focus on expands.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.

Effective team leaders work creatively with each team member to ensure they understand the following issues: Why this task is important to the organization. Why this team task is important to them personally. Why they (their role) are important to the team. Who the other team members are and why they are important to the mission of the team.

Crystal clear roles characterize high performance teams. Every team member is clear about his or her particular role as well as those of the other team members.

I have found from costly experience that it is much easier to analyze the facts after writing them down. In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us reach a sensible decision. As Charles Kettering puts it: "A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

Rule 1 for solving our problems is: Get the facts. Let's do what Dean Hawkes did: let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

Without purpose, the days would have ended, as such days always end, in disintegration.

Confusion is the chief cause of worry.

The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.

To live strongly and creatively in the kingdom of the heavens, we need to have firmly fixed in our minds what our future is to be like. We want to live fully in the kingdom now, and for that purpose our future must make sense to us. It must be something we can now plan or make decisions in terms of, with clarity and joyful anticipation. In this way our future can be incorporated into our life now and our life now can be incorporated into our future.