Clarity Quotes - Page 25

• Abraham Lincoln had great clarity of mind and expression, and he worked to make it clearer -reading Euclid in his early 30s to train his mind.

  William Lee Miller

  Mind, Train

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There is no metaphor for death. All comparisons are odious, but I'll do one anyway. We all have these moments of harsh clarity where we realize that something is gone, whether that is youth, whether that is someone we care about, whether that is where we literally lose someone we care about to death. Or we end a relationship that we thought would last forever, or have one ended for us. We all have these moments in life where it seems impossible to fill up the time that we have left for us, and yet we have to do it somehow.

  John Hodgman

  Forever, Care, Impossible

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.

  Sean Penn

  Heart, Choices, Chaos

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities is the only way to approach the universal.

  James Arthur

  Thinking, Ambiguity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't find English restrictive, but it brings a level of discipline to my writing that I wouldn't have in Bulgarian. My control of English, however you define it, my ability to work in English, is more limited than in Bulgarian. That means out of necessity I have to develop a style that goes for clarity of expression which I may not have done otherwise.

  Miroslav Penkov

  Writing, Mean, Discipline

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.

  Maria Teresa Horta

  Loyalty, Prize, Values

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Positive, Travel

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Friendship, Moving On, Thinking

  Harper's BAZAAR Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. September 3, 2009.

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• I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

  Herman Cain

  Philosophy, People, Challenges

  "Herman Cain Tops New Polls, Causes Stir With Campaign Ad". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mistake, Thinking, Talking

  "Darwin's child". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2003.

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  All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Truth, Science

  "Angels in the workplace: stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work". Book by Melissa Giovagnoli, 1999.

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• Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

  Al Gore

  Thinking, Play, Roles

  "Civil disobedience has a role to play". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2009.

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• As a songwriter it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

  Stone Gossard

  Stuff, Kind, Songwriters

  "Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard walks through his band's big hits and deep cuts". INterview with Josh Modell, music.avclub.com. October 15, 2013.

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• The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

  Amy Grant

  Song, Mean, Way

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• I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

  Tom Hooper

  Would Be, Filmmaker, Decided

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• The advent of Google+ and the emergence of the personalized web means this is more true than ever. Brands, and their advertising partners, must wake up to this challenge and define themselves with clarity, consistency and authenticity. Otherwise they just might find themselves shouting in a ghost town.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Consistency, Challenges

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  Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

  Elvis Presley

  Positive, Trust, Wisdom

  Elvis Presley (2007). “Elvis: Inspirations”, p.16, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humility, Effort, Consistency

  "An oft-repeated 'truth'" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2004.

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• Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Attitude, Men, Oysters

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• New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable.

  Jerry Saltz

  New York, Block, Mean

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• We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Letting Go, Art, Thinking

  "Fierce Compassion" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2012.

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• It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

  Thomas Sankara

  Yesterday, Want, Able

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

  Tom Sizemore

  Mirrors, People, Tears

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• An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

  Samuel Smiles

  Reality, Desire, Anticipation

  Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

  Sydney Smith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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