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• The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend to care about.

  Po Bronson

  Differences, Discipline, Choices

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• When it comes to God's commands, the issue is not clarity; it's commitment.

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Commitment, Issues, Command

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• Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.

  The Edge

  Dream, Vision, Angle

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• When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.

  Joss Whedon

  Boyfriend, Kindness, Love You

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Touched". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah (repentance) and protection [from transgression]. It becomes rusty as a mirror becomes rusty, and its clarity is obtained by remembrance. It becomes naked as the body becomes naked, and its beautification is al-Taqwa. It becomes hungry and thirsty as the body becomes hungry, and its food and drink are knowledge, love, dependence, repentance and servitude.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

  Hugh Mackay

  Leadership, Strong, Vision

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• Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

  Lance Morrow

  Window, Abstinence, Mates

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• Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

  Greil Marcus

  Fun, Rocks, Ideas

  Greil Marcus (2014). “Mystery Train”, p.104, Faber & Faber

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• Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Writing, Language, Depends

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• My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Simplicity, Humanity

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• We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Memories, Leica

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• My first priority when taking pictures is to achieve clarity. A good documentary photograph transmits the information of the situation with the utmost fidelity; achieving it means understanding the nuances of lighting and composition, and also remembering to keep the lenses clean and the cameras steady.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Mean, Priorities

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• His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'

  Richard Gere

  Photography, Thinking, Poor Quality

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• My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Light, Giving

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• First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.

  Henry Maudslay

  Success, Science, Accomplishment

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• As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life. I can stave those off when I'm not high. When I'm high - well, they come in and there's less of a veil, so to speak. So if ever I need some clarity, or a quantum leap in my own consciousness, or a quantum leap in terms of writing something or getting an answer, it's a quick way for me to get it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Weed, Sweet, Writing

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• There is no comfort in change But also no learning in the Steady drone of peace. There will be no greater sorrow Than watching you go - Except for watching you grow old And tired here - Clarity awaits Elsewhere

  S. D. Perry

  Peace, Learning, Tired

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• Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.

  Bill Watterson

  Meaningful, Jobs, Book

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."

  Rob Brezsny

  Prayer, Cells, Soul

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.258, Frog Books

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• When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

  Byron Katie

  Want, Clear

  Twitter post from Apr 28, 2013

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• How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Luxury, People, Simplicity

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.347, Springer Science & Business Media

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• To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Objectivity, Firsts, Masters

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Nov 19, 2014

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• The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

  Anne Sweeney

  Team, Communication, People

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• Clarity is the ability to see the soul in action in the physical world.

  Gary Zukav

  Soul, World, Action

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Dec 05, 2014

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• Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.

  Simon Sinek

  Past, Talking, Vision

  Twitter post from Feb 06, 2014

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