Clear Quotes
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To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.
Brander Matthews
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This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as "I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world."
Erwin Schrodinger
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When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.
Christmas Humphreys
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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
Berthold Auerbach
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Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.
Anna Godbersen
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One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.
Vladimir Putin
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No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.
Celia Thaxter
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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
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Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.
Seth Lloyd
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My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
Soren Kierkegaard
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To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
Thomas A. Edison
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If you want to make something clear to someone, you mustn't forget the main point, the most important thing, and if you bring in something else as an illustration you mustn't wander off into endless irrelevancies.
Anton Webern
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I don't want to take shots at professional actors, because obviously the great ones are great. But I do think that given the kind of stories I've been telling in my films, it's hard for me to imagine how professional actors would have done better. And it's easy for me to imagine how they would have done worse. Because I think a lot of what an actor is trained to do and a lot of what an actor's instincts point toward is clarification, is always making it clear what's happening in the story, how the character fits into the scene, what the character wants.
Andrew Bujalski
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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
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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
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The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.
Evgeny Morozov
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When your thinking thoughts pass, you will be in the clear sky of your mind.
Nawang Khechog
