Clarity Quotes - Page 21

• For the law, the clarity of language and the finality of judgment is crucial, because you have to decide a case one way or another - whether it is criminal or civil or whatever. In ordinary life, you do not have to decide things with absolute finality. You do not have to decide on a theory in order to behave in a certain way towards other people.

  Talal Asad

  Order, Law, People

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• My basic approach is to recognize that mainstream legal theories of contract have been muddied by unlibertarian and positivistic conceptions of law and rights. Questions about what rights are "alienable" or not, loose talk about how promises should be "binding," etc., highlight the need for clarity in this area. In my view, to sort these issues out one needs a very clear and consistent understanding of the nature of property rights and ownership.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Issues, Rights, Views

  "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

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• Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.

  Michael Ray

  Running, Honesty, Business

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• Now let us regard the idea of God from the magic standpoint, according to the four elements, the so-called tetragrammaton, the unspeakable, the supreme: the fiery principle involves the almightiness and the omnipotence, the airy principle owns the wisdom, purity and clarity, from which aspect proceeds the universal lawfulness. Love and eternal life are attributed to the watery principle, and omnipresence, immortality and consequently eternity belong to the earth principle. These four aspects together represent the supreme Godhead.

  Franz Bardon

  Omnipotence, Four Elements, Ideas

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• The ultimate success formula: I) Decide what you want (Be precise! Clarity is power) II) Take action (because desire is not enough) III) Notice what's working or not (You don't want to continue to expend energy on an approach that's worthless IV) Change your approach until you achieve what you want (Flexibility gives you the power to create a new approach and a new result.)

  Tony Robbins

  Giving, Desire, Energy

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• When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.

  Reggie Jackson

  Beautiful, Baseball, Lines

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• Let your clarity define you, in the end, we will only just remember how it feels.

  Rob Thomas

  Remember, Ends, Feels

  Song: Little Wonders, 2007

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• On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

  James Robertson

  Success, Ideas, Scope

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• Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Friendship, Passion, Doubt

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Clerus domini. Office ministerial. Discourse of friendship. Rules and advices to the clergy. Heber's Life of Bp. Taylor, and indexes to the ten volumes”, p.77

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• First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Mind, Firsts, Amendments

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.211, Lulu.com

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• And yet, within her anxiety, secured there like a gemstone, she carries the cool and curious power of occasionally being able to see the world vividly. Clarity bursts upon her a spray of little stars. She understands this, and thinks of it as one of the tricks of consciousness; there is something almost luxurious about it.. The narrative maze opens and permits her to pass through. She may be crowded out of her own life - she knows this for a fact and has always know it - but she possesses, as a compensatory gift, the startling ability to draft alternative versions.

  Carol Shields

  Stars, Thinking, Anxiety

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• All of a sudden you have this feeling of clarity. Backcountry snowboarding has really done a lot to boost that feeling in me.

  Craig Kelly

  Snowboarding, Feelings, Done

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• Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

  George Chapman

  Meaning Something, Oratory, Dense

  "Ovid's Banquet of Sense". Poem by George Chapman, Preface, 1595.

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• People - Catholics and non-Catholics - are amazingly open to begin again in their walk with Jesus and in the Church when they hear clarity and honesty. What they don't put up with, thank God, is dishonesty and cover-up. And so I speak as openly as I possibly can about the difficulties of the Church because we shouldn't be afraid to call out an abuse of the wonderful gift God gives to us of the Church. When we - its members and its leaders - are imperfect we need to change. We need to begin again. That begins with honesty.

  Jonathan Morris

  Jesus, Honesty, People

  "Father Jonathan Morris talks about working with Mel Gibson, Fox News, self-help books and running The Cat". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. June 2012.

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• I worked as an assistant editor, actually, for a few years. That was right when I was just starting to get out at night and do a lot of stand-up, improv, and sketch work in New York. It really is invaluable. I think it pounded into me an awareness of what an editor wants and needs, in terms of clarity of a moment, where and when to start and stop a line.

  Ed Helms

  New York, Night, Thinking

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.

  Brian Kernighan

  Clarity Of Thought, Substitutes

  Brian W. Kernighan (1976). “Software Tools”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.

  Roy H. Williams

  Simple, Risk, Able

  Roy H. Williams (2012). “The Wizard of Ads: Turning Words into Magic And Dreamers into Millionaires”, p.10, BookBaby

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• Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Self, Should Have

  Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

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• It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in many important respects a model of ambiguity or indeed even self-contradiction.

  Antonin Scalia

  Self, Important, Would Be

  "Bells Lose High Court Ruling" by Joanna Glasner, www.wired.com. January 25, 1999.

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• The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

  Ted Nelson

  Morning, Simple, Friendly

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• Weasel words from mollycoddles will never do when the day demands prophetic clarity from greathearts. Manly men must emerge for this hour of trial.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Trials, Demand

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• When you play guitar you are drawing a frame around a moment and saying to the listener, 'Here is how I want you to experience this. How you begin and end a solo is framing, How you structure a song is framing, how you present yourself onstage is framing. See every corner, not just the center, framing should heighten the impact of the art and give clarity to your vision.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Song, Art, Impact

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• Writing in a journal each day, with a structured, strategic process allows you to direct your focus to what you did accomplish, what you're grateful for, and what you're committed to doing better tomorrow. Thus, you more deeply enjoy your journey each day, feel good about any forward progress you made, and use a heightened level of clarity to accelerate your results.

  Hal Elrod

  Grateful, Writing, Journey

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• Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication? Will we bite our mother tongue with the teeth of indifference, crushing the taste buds of clarity and, without prompt application of the antiseptic of education, causing the gangrene of strained metaphors? Stand up, America, and let me hear your answer: Ain't no way, dude!

  Mike Nichols

  Crush, Mother, Communication

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• The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Crush, Dream, Effort

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