#clarity

Look at a full vivid painting, and look at an empty picture. If you can immediately see an entire universe within the empty picture, and absolutely nothing in the vivid painting, clarity is your friend. If you immediately see a full vivid painting and an empty picture, and see them for what they are, slavery is your friend. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#imagination #perception #truth #imagination

Clarity and focus doesn’t always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#humor #mothers #parents #humor

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns) ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#intelligence #iq #truths #wisdom #intelligence

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#honesty #oscar-wilde #words #writing #honesty

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. ↗

— Herman Cain

#approach #because #challenge #clarity #extension

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

— Sheryl Crow

#clarity #enjoy #i #more #much

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#appear #beautiful #clarity #dream #experience

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

#became #began #clarity #companions #discover

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

— Tom Hooper

#decided #filmmaker #had #i #life

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#counterbalance #profound #thoughts