#clarity

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4) ↗

— David McCullough

#creative-process #precision #thinking #thought #writing

Smartass Disciple: Which one was first created, time or things? Master of Stupidity: No things, no changes. No changes, no time. ↗

— Toba Beta

#clarity-of-perception #creation #first #logic #things

There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts. ↗

— Kathryn Worth

#clarity #heavens #nature #sky #space

A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #journey #life #motivational #success

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

#clarity #like #line #pitch #put

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity. ↗

— George Oppen

#any #beautiful #beautiful thing #clarity #did

And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last. ↗

— Kevin Barry

#aging #clarity #forty #life #realization

Cultivate clarity, strength, vitality and power from natural, beautiful and organic living foods. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#natural #organic #power #strength #vitality

Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos. ↗

— Charles M. Blow

#clarity #humanity #leadership #opposition #will

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

— Rupert Everett

#clarity #comes #jealousy #psychotic