Clear Quotes - Page 20

• The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely, just be open and funny, and paying, you know, paying attention.

  Brian Henson

  Challenges, Mind, Attention

  Source: bigthink.com

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• When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly.

  Neal Brennan

  People, Black, Sides

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We have Islamic rebels [in Syria] who've been eating the hearts or organs of their enemies. We have priests that have been killed. We have Christian villages that have been razed by Islamic rebels. We have Islamic rebels who say they don't recognize Israel and would just as soon attack Israel as [Bashar] Assad. So really, I see no clear-cut American interest, and I'm afraid that sometimes things unravel, and the situation could become less stable and not more stable.

  Rand Paul

  Christian, Islamic, Heart

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I just can't vote to go to war unless I think there's a real clear-cut American purpose in the war, that we're going to win and that we're not going fight for stalemate.

  Rand Paul

  Real, War, Fighting

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• And when I say permanent afternoon, you know, I’m talking like crystal clear, crispy blue sky. All the sudden you didn’t need to sleep as much because it just was difficult. And how that translated into my creative process I still am not quite sure, but it made my relationship to sleep a kind of abstract you know bizarre…

  DJ Spooky

  Sleep, Blue, Talking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.

  Barry Neil Kaufman

  Communication, Loud Voices, Self Improvement

  Barry Neil Kaufman (1996). “Out-smarting Your Karma: And Other Preordained Conditions”, Option Institute

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• "Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.

  Jason Fried

  Mean, Simple, Add

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• When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him, however just it might be, and it seems that he is afraid of discovering the truth.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Truth, Challenges, Mind

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• We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

  Player, Issues, Intuition

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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• If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight.

  Zicheng Hong

  Dark, Blue, Sky

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• Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain the capacity to accept impurities and should not be solitary perfectionists.

  Zicheng Hong

  Water, People, Taoism

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• A clear sunny day can suddenly shift to thunder and lightning, a raging storm can suddenly give way to a bright moonlit night. The weather may be inconstant, but the sky remains the same. The substance of the human mind should also be like this.

  Zicheng Hong

  Night, Sky, Weather

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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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• You should not be too much of a purist in your way of life, for you need to be able to accept all that is foul. You should not be too clear in making distinctions in social interactions, for you need to accept everyone whether they are good or bad, wise or foolish.

  Zicheng Hong

  Wise, Taoism, Needs

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• The central question of the Chicago conference was whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolution.  At the risk of doing violence to the positions of some of the people at the meeting, the answer can be given as a clear No.

  Roger Lewin

  People, Risk, Chicago

  "Evolutionary theory under fire". science.sciencemag.org. November 21, 1980.

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• I think that's why I coach.. I used to get up early every morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast I was going to be. When I stopped rowing, there was a void in my daily routine. Now I go to bed at night and get up morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast you are going to be.

  Christopher Allsopp

  Morning, Night, Thinking

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• If you look at how we are destroying and disrespecting Creation it is obvious that is something is not clear in our understanding. We overemphasize rules but we don't understand the objective.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Understanding, Looks, Creation

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• In my book Radical Reform I made it clear that we cannot talk about the environment or ecology if we don't also deal with the economy. There is a direct link between how we deal with the economy and how we deal with nature.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Book, Reform, Links

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• In Islam, rules are important, like the Prophet said innal halaala bayyinun, wa innal haraama bayyinun ["what is halal is clear, what is haram is clear"]. The goal is not to diminish the importance of rules, but to have the right priorities.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Goal, Priorities, Islam

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• There is the philosophy embedded in the culture we are living. It is quite clear for example that Arabs have a different culture than Malaysians.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophy, Example, Different

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• For me I made it clear that I wanted to meet with both sides of the political spectrum.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Political, Sides, Made

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• How can someone like Alain Juppé still claim I haven't condemned the Paris and Brussels attacks, when I actually have. What I am saying is crystal clear.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Paris, Crystals, Claims

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• Even now, and you can look at me, am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

  Pol Pot

  Savages, Looks, Look At Me

  Source: natethayer.typepad.com

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• At the front of my home, in the garden, is a huge piece of clear quartz.

  Miranda Kerr

  Home, Garden, Pieces

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• I also carry a clear-and-rose-quartz chakra wand in my handbag.

  Miranda Kerr

  Rose, Handbags, Chakra

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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