Clarity Quotes

• Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Creativity

• Andrés Segovia is looking up at the morning sky. Tears are streaming from his eyes. He wants to live in this sun all the days of his life. He is suddenly afraid of spending years and years in prison. Perhaps he deserves to be punished. But in this one second of clarity, he wants to become that old word he heard long ago. Emancipated. He is thinking that he will never be worthy of that word.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Sun
  • Sky
  • Prison

• Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Sees
  • Unseen

• In language clarity is everything.

  

  Confucius
  • Language
  • Everything
  • Clarity

• As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • Clarity
  • Companion

• Passing from one dimension to another, he feels that nothing is left behind, but rather is always with him in the moment. His life is no more a myth than other man's, his needs much the same. The only price he pays for this exquisite singularity may be the intrusion of his fellow dreamers who sometimes call him on the telephone. They mean no harm. They too are innocent. Clarity is all any man seeks, this Somnambulist merely find his on the other Side.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Life
  • Needs
  • Seeks

• Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.

  

  William Shawn
  • Believe
  • English
  • Language

• Transformation al leaders pick the right people, match them to the right jobs, achieve mutual clarity on the desired results, and then they get out of the way and leave the individual with maximum freedom to perform.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Leader

• 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

• Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse - each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.

  

  Beatrice Warde
  • Personality
  • Clarity
  • Delivering

• 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
  • Reality
  • Tears
  • Meaningful

• Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

  

  Bruce Bawer
  • Strive
  • Clarity
  • Obscurity

• In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity.

  

  Alfred Romer
  • Knowledge
  • Clarity
  • Paleontology

• For those who confuse you, recognize that their confusion is theirs and your clarity is yours.

  

  Barbara Marciniak
  • Recognize
  • Clarity
  • Confuse

• There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Heart
  • Choice
  • Chaos

• Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Clarity
  • Plato
  • Reflections

• Feel yourself grounded to the earth, while your mind is focusing on the sky of clarity.

  

  Nawang Khechog
  • Mind
  • Earth
  • Clarity

• The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

  

  John Calvin
  • Light
  • Blindness
  • Detracts

• Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Balance
  • Discipline
  • Belief

• To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Giving
  • Purpose
  • Seducing

• Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

  

  Meshell Ndegeocello
  • Children
  • Simplicity
  • Optimism

• I wish my wife would work because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Word
  • I Wish
  • Ferocity

• What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

  

  Chip Heath
  • Looks
  • Resistance
  • Clarity

• I seek speed, clarity, and a practical approach in people I mingle and work with. I can't see myself working in films that stretch beyond maximum four months.

  

  Ravi Teja
  • Work
  • Films
  • Speed

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