Clarity Quotes - Page 9

• Once in a while you get a moment of clarity - an inspiration - and they don't come that frequently.

  Paul Reiser

  Inspiration, Moments, Moments Of Clarity

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• Photography has clarity in the same way that language has. A word is precise, but its meaning can change based on the words around it: think tank, tank top.

  Jason Fulford

  Photography, Thinking, Tanks

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• I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.

  Irving Penn

  Lying, Fall, Simple

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• [My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

  Roger Ballen

  Artist, Goal, Vision

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• There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.

  Luc Delahaye

  Style, Desire, Refusal

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• The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupidity, Honest, Sincere

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• When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn. And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Reality, Discipline, Meditation

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Feb 12, 2017

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• Sanity and clarity are more important for me and I'm willing to give up a lot of shimmer for it. I'm willing to have more boring friends, who are sane.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Giving Up, Important, Sanity

  "Lucky me" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Praying, Increase

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• Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black on white. It is music in which all the notes must be heard.

  Gabriel Faure

  Mistake, White, Black

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• The people with the best sense of what is essential to a community, of what gives and maintains its spirit, are often doing very humble, manual tasks. It is often the poorest person - the one who has a handica[p, is] ill or old - who is the most prophetic. People who carry responsibility must be close to them and know what they think, because it is often they who are free enough to see with the greatest clarity the needs, beauty and pain of the community.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Humble, Responsibility

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• Cultivate clarity, strength, vitality and power from natural, beautiful and organic living foods.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Beautiful, Vitality, Natural

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• Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.

  Leon Edel

  Confused, Writing, Good Day

  Leon Edel (1978). “Henry James: the conquest of London, 1870-1881”

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• This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Hands, Years, Suffering

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Quality, Poetic, Prose

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• The amount of our endurance is directly proportionate to the clarity of our vision, so the practical application is we need to spend time to develop clarity of vision. What do you want your life to look like five, ten or fifteen years from now? Oftentimes, it's not so much a lack of discipline but a lack of vision.

  Rory Vaden

  Years, Discipline, Vision

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• Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

  Etgar Keret

  Writing, Important, Program

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that are comprehensible, and it's easy to criticize something you can understand.

  Billy Collins

  Real, Thinking, Risk

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood. Clarity is certainly a way toward disorientation because if you don't start out - if the reader isn't grounded, if the reader is disoriented in the beginning of the poem, then the reader can't be led astray or disoriented later.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Simple, Comforting

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I think I'm still just as conflicted about the war as I always was. On the one hand, I was a soldier carrying out his duty, following his allegiance to his country and to the mission at hand. But yet, there was always this unease plaguing me. "What are we doing here?" "Are we really fixing this country or are we doing more harm than good?" And the most pressing question: "How do we pull ourselves out of this quicksand?" I think I'm still there in that white space you mentioned, trying to get clarity for myself on what this war did to us as a nation.

  Dave Abrams

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When my birth parents were murdered, I stayed outdoors all night with the bodies. Years later in America, around fourteen, my psychiatrist explained to me that staying with the bodies that night made me fearless. He said that it made me an 'emotional exhibitionist' and told me never to let people convince me that I was weird for speaking with clarity and passion.

  Kola Boof

  Passion, Night, Emotional

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• Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

  Elliott Colla

  Black And White, Division, Noir

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Yoga is an integral part of my daily routine. That definitely helps me approach all aspects of my life from a place of mindfulness and clarity, through the meditation that usually accompanies this practice.

  Christy Turlington

  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

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• I think we've made it a golden idol. I think we in the church have treated it differently than we've treated anything else. We've made it bigger; the resolution for this needs to be bigger than for other people. I think we have to do a better job than we've done. So I do think there is, people rush to judgment and rush to clarify their point on this issue in ways that they don't' rush to judgment and to clarity on other issues.

  Alan Chambers

  Jobs, Thinking, Idols

  Source: www.christianpost.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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