Quotes About Clarity

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

Hence, when studying a new work, it is imperative that a tonal picture of perfect clarity should be prepared in the mind before the mechanical (or technical) practicing begins. In the earlier stages of cultivating this trait it will be best to ask the teacher to play the piece for us, and thus to help us in forming a correct tonal picture in our mind.

The restoration of man's inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one's realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry.

Shadow conceals-light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal and in what degrees to do this is all there is to art.

Paso un rato, pero seguía sintiendo exactamente lo mismo: alguien dentro de mi quería decir algo. Como no podía dejar de oírlo, trate d oírlo. Pero no entendí nada.

contó cuál era la fórmula de su oratoria: «Generalmente comienzo con un chiste o con una historia para captar la atención de la gente: luego les cuento lo que voy a decirles, se lo digo, y después les digo lo que acabo de decirles».

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

All men have eyes, Machiavelli says, but few have the gift of penetration.

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

Seeing within changes one's outer vision" Does anyone know the book and page that this quote by Joseph Chilton Pearce appears for a reference???

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

The moon shows the truth of things.

What direction are we heading in, Jenny?' he asked. 'East,' she replied promptly. 'How do you know that?' 'Because you told me that's the direction we were taking.

We dream to see the truth at the heart of life.

To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

This is a word that is a pitfall to the most of us whether learned or unlearned. Probably it is the most indiscriminately used word in the language.

Ms. Heller," said the man, "if you can hear me, say something, will you?" "What do you want, I'm shouting!" Lauren said at the top of her voice. "Now I see it," one of the female voices said. "Like she's trying to talk. I don't know what she said." "I think she said 'Ow.

The ignorant Looker-on can't imagine what the Limner means by those seemingly rude Lines and Scrawls, which he intends for the Rudiments of a Picture, and the Figures of Mathematick Operation are Nonsense, and Dashes at a Venture, to one uninstructed in Mechanicks. We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments; and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors