Clarity Quotes - Page 10

• Of course, I strongly sympathized with Habermas and the philosophers representing the Frankfurt school, but I also saw the lack of conceptual clarity, and perceived the not-so-revolutionary self-importance in the epigones of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas.

  Thomas Metzinger

  School, Self, Saws

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack of clarity in the concepts of metaphysics implies lack of clarity in other disciplines - both theoretical and practical disciplines - employing those concepts or employing concepts that depend on those of metaphysics.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Philosophical, Discipline, Roles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I've written, say one sentence sonnets, I've been able to do those fairly quickly whereas some of the clearest, simplest lyrics that I've written have taken me the longest to get to the clarity of feeling that you're looking for.

  Edward Hirsch

  Taken, Feelings, Able

  "Embracing the Mess of Poetry". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• You can seek clarity, you can seek warmth, you can try to make something for lasting. You can pack something in salt so that it's well made and you can hope that it outlasts time. But, ultimately that's not up to you.

  Edward Hirsch

  Trying, Up To You, Salt

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I felt like on one hand the clarity of thought was amazing, but on the other we went during Antarctic summer, so the sun didn't set the whole time we were there.

  DJ Spooky

  Summer, Hands, Sun

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power.

  James O'Dea

  Mindfulness, Faces, Courageous

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• Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the
  unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.

  Brendon Burchard

  Ambition, Fire, Goal

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• The road of truth is broad; set the mind on it, and you feel expansive openness and broad clarity. The road of human desires is narrow; set foot on it, and you see brambles and mire before you.

  Zicheng Hong

  Feet, Taoism, Mind

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• When water isn't rippled, it is naturally still. When a mirror isn't clouded, it is clear of itself. So the mind is not to be cleared; get rid of what muddles it, and its clarity will spontaneously appear. Pleasure need not be sought; get rid of what pains you, and pleasure is naturally there.

  Zicheng Hong

  Pain, Mirrors, Water

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• There's only one note you ever get in broadcast and that's clarity.

  Noah Hawley

  Notes

  "Noah Hawley on the Life Span of Fargo, Ewan McGregor's Dual Role, and Adapting Cat's Cradle". Interview with Gazelle Emami and Matt Zoller Seitz, www.vulture.com. June 23, 2016.

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• I'll have these internal moments where I'm empathizing with someone else or feeling something myself, but I'm like, "How can I see the best in this situation?" Sometimes those are the moments where you can have the most clarity.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Feelings, Sometimes, Moments

  "She & Him". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2010.

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• Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.

  Dave Morin

  Long, Simplicity, Problem

  "What Drives You? 10 Top Tech Mavericks tell us what drives them and why". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When people get more frustrated by their indecision than by the situation that prompted it, clarity often follows.

  Carolyn Hax

  People, Frustrated, Indecision

  "Carolyn Hax Live: 'If you mean business, then speak business'". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. July 1, 2016.

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• In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."

  Eyvind Kang

  Art, Wall, Expression

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Trust your Heart.  Value its intuition.  Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the true and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being

  Mooji

  Letting Go, Heart, Joy

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• He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]

  Khalil Gibran

  Gratitude, Joy, Sorrow

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• Writing has such a power for expressionEven when you can’t talk with no one else in the whole world you can talk to your paper. Your feelings whether good, bad or indifferent. We call it despojo in Spanish, which means to be able to get rid of all this agony, weight inside of you. It brings clarity.

  Piri Thomas

  Writing, Mean, Agony

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• As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind.

  Keith Johnstone

  Children, Eye, Perception

  Keith Johnstone (1981). “Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre”, p.13, Routledge

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• The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Book, Focus, Shrewdness

  Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books

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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 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

  Accomplishment, Degrees, Importance

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• On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the writer finds himself in lifelong struggle to join the two without sullying or smearing the clarities of either.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Struggle, Blue, Two

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• Layne and Paul Cutright are like lasers in the way they penetrate to the core issues of relationships in their easy to read book, Straight From the Heart. It has been a long while since I've encountered such clarity on an issue that affects us all. Obviously, their wisdom comes from years of experience in their own relationship and from counseling many others on how to attain nurturing and rewarding relationships. Their book is a gift to us all. I highly recommend it to everyone.

  Tolly Burkan

  Book, Heart, Years

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• 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

  Ideas, Connections, Difficult

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• What an invaluable handbook! Lori A. May has done her research, knows her stuff, and, whats best, lets the programs speak for themselves through her extensive interviews. Theres a chorus of quotes from faculty, students, and graduates in The Low-Residency MFA Handbook. Anyone making the decision to apply for an MFA should consult this wise guide. Mays clarity and authority make it a gold standard.

  Molly Peacock

  Wise, Decision, Gold

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