Clarity Quotes - Page 38

• The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Feelings, Mind

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.17, Vintage

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• The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a cave by the light of matches which keep blowing out.

  Gilbert Highet

  Reading, Light, Important

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• I saw sorrow turning into clarity.

  Yoko Ono

  Sad, Sorrow, Saws

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• Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, War, Clarity Of Purpose

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• Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential good, but with equal clarity they saw the religions of existing institutions and religions based on a fixed scriptural revelation as meddlesome, wrong-headed and hopelessly obsolete.

  Edwin Gaustad

  Father, Atheism, Enlightenment

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• The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Passion, Essentials, Three

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• You cannot lie ever, because a lie destroys the credibility of the product, and credibility is more important than anything. Credibility's even more important than clarity.

  Frank Luntz

  Lying, Important, Credibility

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• Our problems are both acute and chronic, yet all we hear from those in positions of leadership are the same tired proposals for more government tinkering, more meddling and more control---all of which led us to this state in the first place... We must have the clarity of vision to see the difference between what is essential and what is merely desirable, and then the courage to bring our government back under control and make it acceptable to the people.

  Ronald Reagan

  Tired, Differences, Government

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• The British public sees with blinding clarity.

  Michael Heseltine

  British

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• In Ronald Reagans case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

  Rick Perlstein

  Optimism, People, Saws

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• A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a remarkably wide range of examples and is distinguished by the relevance of its insights and by the precision and clarity of their exposition. It is an absorbing read that deserves to become a modern classic of political thinking.

  Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

  Strong, Thinking, Leader

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• Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

  Indira Gandhi

  Maturity, New Experiences, Vision

  Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Norman (1985). “Indira Gandhi, letters to an American friend 1950-1984”, Harcourt

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• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Mistake, Real

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

  Robin Morgan

  Firsts, Language, Casualties

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• Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

  Erica Jong

  Mean, Pockets, Want

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• Sometimes in astronomy, a heavenly body has been virtually invisible until a single observer detects its presence and points it out to his colleagues, who then see it with increasing clarity. Perhaps a myriad of unknown senses are only awaiting our consciousness.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Body, Sometimes, Consciousness

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• I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.

  Mark Nepo

  Confused, Believe, Practice

  "Journey to the Sacred: An Interview With Mark Nepo". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

  Celia Green

  Dishonesty

  "The Decline and Fall of Science". Book by Celia Green, 1976.

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• Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Perseverance, Greed, Difficult

  Natalie Goldberg (1990). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life”, Bantam

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• A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mean, Plain English, Passages

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• Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Loss, Echoes, Identity

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2007). “Composing a Life”, p.180, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous cost. Paid, so far as I am concerned, joyfully.

  Storm Jameson

  Cost, Firsts, Virtue

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.118, A&C Black

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• The practice of asanas purges the body of its impurities, bringing strength, firmness, calm, and clarity of mind.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Practice, Mind, Body

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.137, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• I don't think I ever relinquish a person I have known, and surely not my fictional characters. I see them, I hear them, with a clarity that I would call hallucinatory if hallucination didn't mean something else ... A character whom we create can never die, any more than a friend can die ... Through [my characters] I've lived many parallel lives.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied by a new hope between pity for ourselves - which makes us more indulgent and more understanding - and the certitude of finding something again, that which lives for ever in music.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Music, Solitude, Understanding

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