#clarity

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. ↗

— George Orwell

#english-language #insincerity #english

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

#appreciate #change #clarity #gradual #here

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

— Sandra Cisneros

#come #engenders #i #i think #liberation

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

— Chet Huntley

#clarity #maybe #thought #where

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#children #clarity #curiosity #intelligence #intolerance

It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity what is already there. ↗

— Helen Bevington

#beauty #clarity #nature #observation #poetry

Finding oneself and one's path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#finding-meaning #finding-yourself #inspirational-quotes #life-direction #life-lessons-value-of-life-truth

Strike experienced a moment of pure clarity: he would never make it out of here, would never rise above his current position as Rodney’s lieutenant, because all the intelligence and prudence and vision came to nothing if it wasn’t tempered and supported by a certain blindness, an oblivious animal will that Rodney had, that he, Strike, did not have. Rodney would survive all this not because of his guts or his brains, but because he understood that there was no real life out here on the street, no real lives other than his own, and that what really mattered was coming first in all things, in all ways and at all costs. ↗

— Richard Price

#real-life #success-secret #intelligence

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

— Conan O'Brien

#clarity #comes #conviction #disappointment #gain

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

#craft #embodied #jane #me #mine