Quotes About Clarity

What's the point of art, of any art, if it doesn't let us see with a little bit of objectivity where we are?

Being a conservative has given me clarity; it's given me freedom - my mind is free; therefore, my heart is lighter. And that's a gift from God that I believe we have an obligation to share with others.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

Be obscure clearly.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do.

Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure.

Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.

Sometimes I feel like distance helps observation.

You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.

I try to keep my sentences quite pared back. What I really want to do is observe people's relationships and interactions. I don't want language to get in the way of that. It's quite a difficult process to achieve that, for the language to feel clear.

The actors bring their own stuff and thoughts, and most of the time, I don't want to know what they are. It allows me to have more distance and observe what they're doing without having the knowledge of what they have in their minds, so I can see clearly how that feels to me.

I believe it's worth observing terrible things people have done as clearly and rationally as we can to show that our monsters are not caricatures.

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

On stage I have to amplify some of my emotions with my back or make something a little bit more obvious because my audience might be very far away from me, or very high up and find it harder to read what I'm trying to express.

Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop.

What frustrates me a lot about some aspects of filmmaking is people thinking everyone is really dumb and that we have to make everything really obvious.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.