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Quotes About Clarity

I have my head screwed on right. I haven't been this way in a long time.
~ Liz Phair
I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.
~ Loretta Chase
Tom is back on a flight at 6:15 P.M. That is 6:15. Do you get it? Not 6:00 P.M. but 6:15 P.M. And do you know how many minutes that is? I do. I have also become a Time Lord.
~ Louise Rennison
Because I'm not writing all the time (thank goodness), my mind is sometimes pleasantly blank.
~ Lydia Davis
The hardest time to tell: when to stop.
~ Malcolm Forbes
extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down. this is how the human body reacts to extreme stress.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.
~ Mark Kaylor
Insight occurs just because it is high time.
~ Martin Grotjahn
Everyone's going to have a better time if I'm not confused on stage about who I am.
~ Martina Sorbara
One of the torturous things about my job is that, as time goes on, you get more and more clarity on all the things you've screwed up and all the mistakes you've made.
~ Matt Cohler
Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.
~ Maxwell Maltz
making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.
~ May Sarton
When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.
~ Meryl Streep
I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you mean I love you. There isnt time for anything more.
~ Michael Learned
You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a pact with your readers that you'll be really straight with them at all times.
~ Michael Pollan
In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.
~ Mieczyslaw Jastrun
When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.
~ N. T. Wright
The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.
~ Ned Vizzini
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
~ Mark Twain
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
~ Mark Twain
Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.
~ Mark Twain
Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.
~ Mark Twain
Use the right word, not its second cousin.
~ Mark Twain