Clarity Quotes - Page 39

• True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.

  Adyashanti

  Powerful, Order, Mind

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• The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Views, Suffering

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• clarity need not be equivalent to / readability. How readable is the world?

  Rae Armantrout

  Poetry, Needs, World

  Rae Armantrout (2007). “Collected Prose”

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• It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half of a story's story - the way a story is received and interpreted and used - the audience plays a part in that too.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Writing, Play, Giving

  "Something Just Beyond Words". Interview with Molly McArdle, logger.believermag.com. April 25, 2014.

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• To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Support, Outcomes, Gains

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

  Helen Bevington

  Intense, Shows

  Helen Smith Bevington (1961). “When Found, Make a Verse of”

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• Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there.

  Howard Behar

  Honesty, Want, Who We Are

  Howard Behar, Janet Goldstein (2007). “It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks”, p.19, Penguin

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• I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Heart, Garden, Feelings

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.32, City Lights Publishers

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• Clarity keeps you from boredom.

  Kim Basinger

  Boredom

  "Kim Basinger on Good Kissing, Her Academy Awards Outburst, and Conversations with God". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. January 1, 1991.

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• As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

  Joan Cusack

  Children, Character, Kids

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• It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mean, Mind, Enlightenment

  "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations" - Macchu Picchu,

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• I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

  Billy Joel

  Piano, Long, Consistency

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• One must differentiate between one's thoughts and one's emotions with full clarity and precision...No discussion, cooperation, agreement, or understanding is possible among men who substitute emotion for proof.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Understanding, Cooperation

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• Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

  William Zinsser

  Moving, Style, Narrative

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• The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues, and proposes practical solutions that anyone concerned with the plight of the world's poor would be wise to read.

  Robert Fogel

  Wise, Book, Deep Understanding

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• There is something breathtaking about the basic laws of crystals. They are in no sense a discovery of the human mind; they just "are" - they exist quite independently of us. The most that man can do is become aware, in a moment of clarity, that they are there, and take cognizance of them.

  M. C. Escher

  Men, Discovery, Law

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• Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

  Primo Levi

  Ideas, Alchemist, Gold

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• The kids are the ones that have a clarity about what they want. They don't have any wisdom, but they do have a clear understanding about what they want to have happen.

  Wes Anderson

  Kids, Understanding, Want

  "Wes Anderson on 'Moonrise Kingdom' and its unfamiliar reality". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh.

  Steve Martin

  Long, Laughing, Feelings

  "COVER STORY : A Side Order of Steve Martin : He's had his ups and downs with L.A., but they're back together in his new movie". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 3, 1991.

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• There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent, between a strong conviction that we must go to war and an abundant compassion for any that may die as a result, and between political conservatism and personal decency.

  David Limbaugh

  Strong, War, Humility

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• Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

  Brian Tracy

  Numbers, Trying, Asking

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Feb 08, 2010

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• At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

  Aberjhani

  Believe, Heart, Differences

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• In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and ways for people to talk about the racialized features of our society without falling into name-calling or defensiveness. With exemplary moral and analytic clarity, Blum offers educators, students, lawyers, judges, leaders, and citizens tools for building a nation of equality, comity, and respect for each person.

  Martha Minow

  Fall, Race, Names

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• There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Moving, Anxiety, Get Better

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• Thats one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.

  Jim Oberweis

  Challenges, Investing, China

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