Clarity famous quotes
05-15-2025
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
-- Alan Lightman -
To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.
-- Alice Sebold -
The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity, You know what you live for and what matters.
-- Angelina Jolie -
a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned
-- Ani DiFranco -
I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
-- Antisthenes -
Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.
-- Arthur Balfour -
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
For those who confuse you, recognize that their confusion is theirs and your clarity is yours.
-- Barbara Marciniak -
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
-- Ben Horowitz -
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
-- Bernard Pivot -
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
-- Bertrand Russell -
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
-- Booker T. Washington -
You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn't understand before. But there's never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.
-- Byron Katie -
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
-- Carl von Clausewitz -
Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.
-- Celia Green -
there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.
-- Chet Huntley -
What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.
-- Chip Heath -
Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.
-- Dan Millman -
Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.
-- David Lindsay-Abaire -
What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.
-- David Nabarro -
Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion.
-- Deepak Chopra -
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
-- Edward Albee -
Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen -
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
-- F. L. Lucas -
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 -
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
-- Franz Kafka -
Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.
-- George Oppen -
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.
-- George Orwell -
The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force.
-- George Steiner -
My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.
-- Glenn Gould -
Silence not only lets you listen but to see things with much more clarity than you ever can.
-- Gopichand Lagadapati -
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
If you are losing at a game, change the game.
-- Gregory Benford -
poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.
-- Helen Bevington -
I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.
-- Henri Matisse -
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
-- Henry J. Kaiser -
Success is clarity of my intention....and reaching that intention while being true to myself and with joy.
-- India.Arie -
Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
-- Indira Gandhi -
Never judge your clarity based on someone else's response.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
Confidence without clarity is always a disaster.
-- Jaggi Vasudev -
Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.
-- James Norwood Pratt -
It starts with vision, and the clarity of vision
-- Jeff Weiner -
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Thats one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.
-- Jim Oberweis -
I operate out of confusion, towards clarity.
-- Joel-Peter Witkin -
Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
-- John of the Cross -
A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.
-- John Ziman -
Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.
-- Jonathan Stroud -
Thus, if the clarity of our thoughts comes through better in a play of words, then the wordplay is good. One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them.
-- Joseph Joubert -
As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.
-- Juan Goytisolo -
Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?
-- Judith McNaught -
Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
-- Jules Renard -
When the defects of others are perceived with so much clarity, it is because one possesses them oneself.
-- Jules Renard -
It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully.
-- Julia Cameron -
Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.
-- Julian Barnes -
The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.
-- Karl Kraus -
I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of course. "Belonging" is another way of saying: "capitulating to."
-- Kenny Smith -
Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one's higher powers.
-- Kenny Smith -
To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.
-- Kristin Armstrong -
I am very impressed by the thinking that went into The Clarity Box. David Regal is diabolical.
-- Lance Burton -
Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.
-- Lance Morrow -
A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers .
-- Leo Szilard -
Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.
-- Leonard Michaels -
I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.
-- Leonid Feodorov -
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
-- Luc de Clapiers -
The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
-- Manu Bennett -
Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.
-- Marcus Buckingham -
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 -
The progression of a painter’s work…will be toward clarity; toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer…to achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood.
-- Mark Rothko -
Let us make sure that the worship services we plan and conduct present that Truth in all its clarity and beauty and goodness.
-- Marva Dawn -
Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu -
Each of us is the sum of our scars.
-- Matthew Woodring Stover -
Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.
-- Matthieu Ricard -
It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right.
-- Meg Cabot -
I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.
-- Michael Gove -
The British public sees with blinding clarity.
-- Michael Heseltine -
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
-- Michael Moriarty -
She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
-- Michael Ondaatje -
When you come to a fork in the road, be still, and see with your mind's eye. There you find the clarity you seek.
-- Michelle Cruz -
Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
-- Natalie Goldberg -
Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.
-- Noah Lukeman -
I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
-- Paul Muldoon -
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
-- Pericles -
Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.
-- Peter Elbow -
Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
-- Peter Tork
