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Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.
Fearless means trusting your instincts and clarity of thought. Once you have made up your mind, don't be scared of what if.
My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.
But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.
If the director has clarity of thought and vision, you are bound to just go ahead and do what he wants to do. I respect that.
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
All of a sudden you have this feeling of clarity. Backcountry snowboarding has really done a lot to boost that feeling in me.
The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters.
Let us make sure that the worship services we plan and conduct present that Truth in all its clarity and beauty and goodness.
My childhood had much clarity. I didn't see abuse. I didn't see my parents bickering. I didn't live in a dysfunctional family.
A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.
He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst things to be.
Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.
The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended.
Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.
Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
I get so many big ideas while I'm running and such clarity while I'm lifting weights. And staying fit keeps me happy and positive.
Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.
My favourite place is at home with my family. My career is really raising my children. I'm still waiting for clarity on the future.
Everybody wants to have an empirical analysis of a relationship ending, but sometimes there's not that much clarity, and that's OK.
There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions.
My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.
I don't take up too many projects at a time. I choose with care. I guess that clarity comes because my parents are from the industry.
I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.
There is one solution to all of our problems: Teaching our kids clarity of thought and political representation in democracy. That's it.
Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.
You cannot be receptive when you are too full of yourself. The less you are, the more you receive. The more you are, the less you receive.
Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
Abraham Lincoln had great clarity of mind and expression, and he worked to make it clearer -reading Euclid in his early 30s to train his mind.
In Holland, you can step into the manager's office and ask him for clarity if you don't know why you're not playing and they are open with you.
A computer is not really like us. It is a projection of a very small part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order, rule and clarity.
I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to the reader, but also I need clarity.
Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
When you are introduced to the clarity inside of you, to the simplicity inside of you, to that beauty inside of you, the journey of life begins.
Foreign investors like decisiveness; they like clarity. There isn't any confusion about Ireland's corporate tax rate: it is 12.5%. End of story.
I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.
Clarity precedes mastery and the more clear you can get on what you want to create in life, the more focused you will be in your daily behaviors.
What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A new scientific theory is seldom stated with such clarity by its original author, and usually takes many years to creep into public conciousness.
Elizabeth Bishop in particular had a big impact on me personally as well as artistically. Her insistence on clarity is something I rate very highly.
At 17, I realized that it's going to be a tough decision to make, but I had the clarity of thought to walk out of cricket and try my luck in acting.
I am going to pray for Donald Trump. I'm going to pray that God gives him clarity, that God gives him the ability to impact people's lives positively.
If you can resolve this transition of [Bashar] Assad, that is absolutely possible, but you have to have a clarity for everybody about the way forward.
If I get the idea, and I get some clarity on how I feel about that idea, then I can safely assume I'll find the right words. I do have that confidence.