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Clarity Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “I believe that the reason why Dimitri’s soul is so clear, is that he is entirely given up to his work, his ideal. What has he to trouble about? When any one has utterly... utterly... given himself up, he has little sorrow, he is not responsible for anything. It’s not I want, but it wants.”

Ivan Turgenev

2. “Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism – clarity, order, proportion, balance – is in Egypt.”

Camille Paglia

3. “No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.”

J.P. Morgan

4. “Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question ‘Why should I buy this book?’”

Guy Kawasaki

5. “The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.”

Guy Kawasaki

6. “Mission statements are long, dull, and forgettable.”

Guy Kawasaki

7. “Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.”

Guy Kawasaki

8. “If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don’t have a business.”

Guy Kawasaki

9. “If you can’t describe your business model in ten words or fewer, you don’t have a business model.”

Guy Kawasaki

10. “Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.”

Margaret Fuller

11. “My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it’s unbelievably clear.”

Steven Wright

12. “Curiosity + Patience = Clarity”

Ankur Warikoo

13. “If a manager's response to "by when do you need this?" is ASAP, then they really do not know by when they need it!”

Ankur Warikoo

14. “Most of life's problems are a result of our inability to have an honest and objective conversation with our own selves.”

Ankur Warikoo

15. “Being aware of the fallacies we are susceptible to, makes us commit less of them.”

Ankur Warikoo

16. “You will never get distracted by something you do not desire.”

Ankur Warikoo

17. “If it can’t be explained in written, it can never be explained in spoken.”

Ankur Warikoo

18. “When overthinking, we do not assign any probability to all the possibilities in our head. We think everything is equally probable.”

Ankur Warikoo

19. “We do not believe most things that we should believe in, simply because they are "too simple".”

Ankur Warikoo

20. “When we say "I am confused", mostly what we mean to say is "I am scared to make the choice I think I should."”

Ankur Warikoo

21. “Our emotions are the worst friends to make decisions with.”

Ankur Warikoo

22. “Our emotions are usually the worst friends to make decisions with.”

Ankur Warikoo

23. “The harder you think about why, how and where you need help, the better help you will receive.”

Ankur Warikoo

24. “Picking one, teaches. Picking both, confuses.”

Ankur Warikoo

25. “People will help you only when you have helped them understand how they can.”

Ankur Warikoo

26. “The goal is not to sound smart. The goal is to help understand.”

Ankur Warikoo

27. “Writing is the slowest form of expression. And that is why it works. When you write, you train yourself to pace your thoughts and select the most powerful one from all the thoughts that co-exist in that moment.”

Ankur Warikoo

28. “We often confuse milestones with progress. When you complete a year at work, that’s a milestone. That may not mean progress.”

Ankur Warikoo

29. “Most answers in life are simple. Accepting them is hard!”

Ankur Warikoo

30. “If we do not know what we truly want from life the most, at that point of time, the next best thing that we want is EVERYTHING!”

Ankur Warikoo

31. “When we say "I don't know what I should do", very often we mean "I don't know if what I want to do will work!"”

Ankur Warikoo

32. “When people say they are confused, they mostly mean they don’t even know what options they have.”

Ankur Warikoo

33. “We think that if we simplify things, we will lose our importance.”

Ankur Warikoo

34. “We all love more money. We just don't know why!”

Ankur Warikoo

35. “The solution to the problem lies in the problem, not the solution!”

Ankur Warikoo

36. “Execution brings focus. Focus silences noise.”

Ankur Warikoo

37. “When we disguise our desires as our needs, we almost always end up making a mistake.”

Ankur Warikoo

38. “Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear...”

Jimmy Carter

39. “Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

40. “Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

41. “Mindfulness is like that – it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

42. “We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

43. “Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

44. “Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.”

Pythagoras

45. “Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.”

Pythagoras

46. “Themistocles replied that a man’s discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.”

Plutarch

47. “Our five senses are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason.”

Thomas Merton

48. “Without courage we can never attain to true simplicity. Cowardice keeps us “double minded” – hesitating between the world and God.”

Thomas Merton

49. “The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.”

Thomas Merton

50. “Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.”

Thomas Merton