Clarity Quotes - Page 32

• Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It nudges you to clarity.

  Gloria Feldt

  Giving, Nudge, Embrace

  Gloria Feldt (2012). “No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power”, p.153, Seal Press

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• There's a clarity that comes with great ideas: You can [easily and simply] explain why something's a great business, how and why it's cheap, why it's cheap for temporary reasons and how, on a normal basis, it should be trading at a much higher level. You're never sitting there on the 40th page of your spreadsheet, as Buffett would say, agonizing over whether you should buy or not.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Ideas, Sitting, Levels

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• Father, we long for the clarity of Your truth to dawn upon our minds and for the immensity of Your love to grip our hearts.

  Alistair Begg

  Father, Heart, Long

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• Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Class, Competition

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1980). “Annals of an Abiding Liberal”, Plume

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• One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Illumination, Sobriety, Vision

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.48, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The faithful witness, like...Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists obsession with solution. He betrays society when he is silent...He is true to himself and to people when his clarity causes disquiet.

  John Ralston Saul

  People, Faithful, Causes

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• And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.

  Terence McKenna

  Opposites, Feet, Space

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• Taking the one seat describes two related aspects of spiritual work. Outwardly, it means selecting one practice and teacher among all the possibilities, and inwardly, it means having the determination to stick with that practice through whatever difficulties and doubts arise until you have come to true clarity and understanding.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Teacher, Determination

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• Clarity (always) trumps persuasion

  Flint McGlaughlin

  Persuasion, Trump

  "Guaranteeing Your Work Using Predictive Marketing with Stephen Woessner" by Drew McLellan, November 4, 2015.

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• As for the clarity of the 48 frames, I've heard people say that it looks odd, it's too demanding, there's too much information, you don't know where to look.

  Ian Mckellen

  People, Looks, Too Much Information

  Source: collider.com

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• In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

  Laozi

  Water, Return, Stillness

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• The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.

  Diane Ackerman

  Meaningful, Reality, Tears

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.14, Vintage

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• I am very impressed by the thinking that went into The Clarity Box. David Regal is diabolical.

  Lance Burton

  Thinking, Regal, Boxes

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• If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine.

  Pat Schneider

  Character, Hair, Car

  Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Confusion, Sound

  "Richard Dawkins' Hate Mail". Interview with Rowan Hooper, www.slate.com. December 28, 2013.

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• My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.

  Brian Tracy

  Cancer, Favorite Words, Profound

  Source: ceotraining.com

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• My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next two are focus and concentration. And I've probably spent my whole life both practicing those two and teaching them. Focus. Focus on a single point and concentration. And concentrating on a single thing till it's done.

  Brian Tracy

  Teaching, Writing, Focus And Concentration

  Source: ceotraining.com

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• Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Wells

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.279

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• The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, Stars, Moon

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• When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.

  Vimala Thakar

  Knowing Who You Are, Relaxation, Quality

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• As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Beautiful, Taken, Perfection

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• Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Want Something, Feelings, Conflict

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• In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as 'Monitoring,' 'Scheduling,' and 'Convenience.' Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as 'Thinking,' 'Identity,' and 'Clarity.'

  Gretchen Rubin

  Thinking, Effort, Identity

  Gretchen Rubin (2016). “The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Use, Language

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of the past, as well as singular works of our own time. Deconstruction is also a certain thinking about tradition and context. Mark Taylor evokes this with great clarity in the course of a remarkable introduction. He reconstitutes a set of premises without which no deconstruction could have seen the light of day.

  Jacques Derrida

  Memories, Philosophy, Reading

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