Clear Quotes

• A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Writer
  • Clear
  • Brief

• It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Language
  • Surrender
  • Metaphor

• If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Clear
  • Saved

• Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it, if you would never be compensated for it, if nobody ever wanted it. If you come to a clear ‘yes’ in spite of it, then go ahead and don’t doubt it anymore.

  

  Ernst Haas
  • Art
  • Asks
  • Spite

• Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Path
  • Circumstances
  • Duty

• I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.

  

  Edwina Findley
  • Steps
  • Needed
  • Accounts

• I learned that working out gives me a space to get clear. It's not just about the body. It gives me space to process things and get clear in my mind about decisions and things I want to do.

  

  Estelle
  • Decision
  • Learned
  • Working Out

• I'm very prescriptive about who I work with. I'm very clear about what I believe. If they believe what I believe I will work with them. If they say things like, "Convince me we should do this." I walk away.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Believe
  • Should
  • Convince

• In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Actors
  • Certain
  • Needed

• A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Sea
  • Clear
  • Orients

• Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear.

  

  Johnny Olson
  • Voice
  • Clear
  • Loud

• Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Said
  • Firsts
  • Earnest

• President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.

  

  Thomas E. Donilon
  • President
  • Clear
  • Pacific

• The key to effective visualization is to create the most detailed, clear and vivid a picture to focus on as possible. The more vivid the visualization, the more likely, and quickly, you are to begin attracting the things that help you achieve what you want to get done.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Focus
  • Achieve
  • Keys

• The most important thing for me is the tone, the feeling, the pace. But why I'm doing this is not very clear to me. It's much more of an instinctual thing than an analytical process.

  

  Eran Kolirin
  • Important
  • Process
  • Clear

• Clearly see you can't see Clear.

  

  Dave Mustaine Metallica
  • Clear

• One thing I've discovered is that people in the military have a sense of purpose. They feel useful, and everything is laid out in front of them. What their job is, is very clear.

  

  Jill Flint
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Military

• We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Ideas
  • Century
  • Cases

• We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Opposites
  • Notion

• Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Kids
  • Kind
  • Persons

• The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs.

  

  Herodotus
  • Fighting
  • Battle
  • Clear

• Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Questions
  • Open
  • Communicating

• Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Language
  • Writers
  • Clear

• For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • Should
  • Photography
  • Photographer

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