Quotes about Clarity

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

When there is no vision, people perish.

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

There is no such thing as concealment. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

The spiritual leader will not procrastinate when faced with a decision, nor vacillate after making it. A sincere but faulty decision is better than weak-willed trial balloons or indecisive overtures. To postpone decision is really to decide for the status quo. In most decisions the key element is not so much knowing what to do but in living with the results.

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

Sunday morning,I empty of my little tricks to make life livable.

It made me think that everything was about to arrive—the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive—the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.