Clarity Quotes

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?
Charlie Kaufman

Life, Experience, Emotional

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.
Eric Liu

Freedom, Down, Cannot

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.
Tom Hooper

Life, Decided, Filmmaker

I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.
Ayelet Waldman

Focus, Before, Energy

Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the parties should not stymie international clarity and consensus about the endgame in terms of borders and other issues.
David Miliband

Between, Promises, Outside

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.
Dee Hock

Important, Deep, Become

It's all about consistency, and what makes a child or a dog secure: order, clarity - all those things.
Jane Siberry

Child, Makes, Dog

The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
Natan Sharansky

Important, Done, Democracy

If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.
Barry Diller

Public, Run, Company

I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.
Barry Diller

Else, Makes, Story

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.
A. R. Ammons

Change, Successful, Stress

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

Truth, Hold, Discover

There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.
Carrie Brownstein

Crisis, Forward, Everything

Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

Become, Used, Separation

I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.
Michael Gove

Once, Authority, Teachers

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.
Anne M. Mulcahy

Great, Loved, Deal

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.
Vladimir Kramnik

Beauty, Game, Speak

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
Gary Ryan Blair

Dreams, Mind, Blessed

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
Richard Holloway

Great, God, Power

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.
Tom Shadyac

Death, Sense, Purpose

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.
Reggie Jackson

Beautiful, Thought, Put

There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.
Richard Dreyfuss

Political, Democracy, Thought

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
Lytton Strachey

Single, Genius, Direction

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

Children, Wish, Optimism

Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.
Sharon Olds

Mine, Precious, Spirits

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
Paul Muldoon

Interested, Immediacy

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
Rene Daumal

Goal, Enough, Confusion

Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.
Chet Huntley

Thought, Maybe, Air

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
Michael Moriarty

Good, Honesty, Same

I definitely need clarity.
Mary Pierce

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