Clarity Quotes

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

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

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

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.

All of a sudden you have this feeling of clarity. Backcountry snowboarding has really done a lot to boost that feeling in me.

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

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.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.

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

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

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

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.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.