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• I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the thoughts running through my mind. Everything is clearer, heightened. I might be more addicted to this clarity than I am to running itself.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Mind, Details

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• For those who confuse you, recognize that their confusion is theirs and your clarity is yours.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Confusion, Purpose

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.163, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Never judge your clarity based on someone else's response.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Judging, Response

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• Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.

  Alanis Morissette

  Running, Emotional, Impossible

  "Alanis Morissette Gets High from Running – and the Occasional Joint" by Bob Meadows, people.com. December 15, 2009.

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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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• Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.

  Tara Brach

  Responsibility, Compassion, Self

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.207, Random House

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• Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Children, Way

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.56, Random House

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• How many voices have escaped you until now, the venting furnace, the floorboards underfoot, the steady accusations of the clock numbering the minutes no one will mark. The terrible clarity this moment brings, the useless insight, the unbroken dark.

  Dana Gioia

  Dark, Voice, Unbroken

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.14, Macmillan

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• It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.

  Alton Tobey

  Artist, Reality, Data

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• The final product becomes a passionate reflection of all that was revealed to me about my subjects during intense moments of personal clarity.

  Michael Bell

  Reflection, Intense Moments, Finals

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• Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.

  Anna Paskevska

  Giving, Ballet, Technique

  Anna Paskevska, Chair of the Dance Department Anna Paskevska (2005). “Ballet Beyond Tradition”, p.50, Routledge

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• The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.

  John Carroll

  Mind, Important, Gains

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• 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

  Years, Creeps, Theory

  "The Force of Knowledge: The Scientific Dimension of Society". Book by John Ziman, p. 98, 1976.

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• One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness

  V. Vale

  Needs, Changing Environment, Moral

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• An extraordinary dancer, whose blend of tautness and buoyancy is not only exciting but also suggestive of clarity and immediacy with which dance can communicate deep, conflicting emotions.

  Jennifer Dunning

  Dancer, Buoyancy, Emotion

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• Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant, I think, that at both ends of human life span the bond between human and dog speaks with an insistent clarity - if we have the ears to hear.

  Marjorie Garber

  Dog, Love Is, Thinking

  Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone

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• As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap. Are there mathematical proofs of God? Who are the great mathematicians who believed in a deity? Does numerology lead anywhere when applied to sacred literature? Pickover covers these and many other off-trail topics with his usual verve, humor, and clarity. And along the way the reader will learn a great deal of serious mathematics.

  Martin Gardner

  Book, Writing, Math

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• Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have. Generating those feelings is the most powerfully creative thing you can do with your life. And not only do we have to put our feelings at the heart of our ambitions, we have to pursue our desires in a way that is life-affirming, rather than soul-depleting. Rigid goal-chasing is burning us out. Soul-anchored intentions are the way to get home.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Home, Heart, Ambition

  "Interview: Danielle LaPorte | The Desire Map". Interview with Kristen Noel, bestselfmedia.com. February 23, 2015.

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