Top 100 Quotes About Clarify
#1. The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.
George Will
#2. I feel compelled to clarify, simplify, and personalize truth.
J. Grant Howard
#3. The room seemed suddenly to clarify, as when a chance scatter of stars resolves into a constellation before the eye.
Eleanor Catton
#4. You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#5. The purpose of dharma is to help your mind to expand, to grow, to clarify. It should uphold us and create an inner sense of peace, joy, and clarity.
Tenzin Palmo
#6. Unable to meet his steady gaze, I shifted my attention to the stream and cursed myself for being a terrible liar. Actually, allow me to clarify that: I'm great at lying to myself. I'm super crummy at lying to others.
Penny Reid
#7. Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.
Edward Tufte
#8. To increase the flow of kundalini that will alter our perception, it is necessary to clarify the purpose of one's being. This is to come to understand dharma.
Frederick Lenz
#9. I know that suffering gives us new perspectives and helps us to clarify our real value. I know that suffering has helped me to clarify my relationships ... Perhaps suffering stops us in our tracks and forces us to confront what is real within ourselves and in our environment.
Thea Bowman
#10. I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.
Jim Gaffigan
#12. Belief in eternity can clarify your values and renew your hope.
Paul David Tripp
#13. Hearst's papers and magazines" were his intended target and promised his speech would clarify that he abhorred "the whitewash brush quite as much as of mud slinging.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#14. An explanation." Sicarius regarded her intently. "Clarify the situation with the emperor. I could not understand the incoherent jumble you spit out before falling unconscious.
Lindsay Buroker
#15. Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?
Imre Kertesz
#16. (He tells fortunes by throwing palm nuts and reading their patterns but I failed to clarify that because I was looking for an excuse to write "stare at my nuts.")
Cory O'Brien
#17. Beliefs and definitions never clarify how Reality works -- they only distort perception of it.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#18. Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess.
Hassan Nasrallah
#19. The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#20. An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.
Albert Hadley
#21. I blend memories. I blend them into one that's funny. I exaggerate to clarify.
Tim Allen
#22. The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape
Thornton Wilder
#23. It's important to clarify that a library is not necessarily made up of books that we've read, or even that we will eventually read. They should be books that we can read. Or that we may read. Even if we never do.
Jean-Claude Carriere
#24. I usually write from my own experience, and that's definitely a true statement for me. I think having a song about desiring to live and wanting to get it right, which many of my songs do, often I have to clarify that I haven't figured it out yet.
Jon Foreman
#25. We can clarify our thinking if we put our chief emphasis where it belongs - on policies that will maximize production.
Henry Hazlitt
#26. Clarify your vision and you will make better decisions about people, processes, finances, strategies, and customers.
Gino Wickman
#27. ... it does clarify a tough to get it spoken, even if no one listens.
John Steinbeck
#28. Nor could you clarify this confusion by assuming that the old man had been a victim of hallucination. Bartholomew wasn't that type of person. He was neither a liar nor a fool.
Lloyd C. Douglas
#29. What you're saying," I clarify through clenched teeth, "is that call boys don't make it far in government.
S. Hunter Nisbet
#30. In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality
the principle of order versus the split atom.
Ezra Pound
#31. If you don't clarify your goal, you'll never identify the best approach.
Andy Stanley
#32. Everything looks different. The houses are all these wild colors. The light is strange. It smells primeval. You're on Mars."
"You are talking about driving?" Lin attempted to clarify.
"About wanderlust," she answered.
Nicole Mones
#33. I was forced to confront the ugly truth: people had deliberately wielded formulas to impress rather than clarify.
Cathy O'Neil
#34. I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the issues and conditions of the present and future.
Charles Lindbergh
#35. To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.
William Carlos Williams
#36. How do you recruit and keep volunteers? Part of the answer is that we clarify the win. Countless individuals quit working in churches every year
Andy Stanley
#37. So just to clarify, I always have my vagina with me. It's like my American Express card.
Jenny Lawson
#38. Your sight must become an insight; it must be turned within and used to purify and clarify your mind.
Sathya Sai Baba
#39. It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think that I meant that I lived in Brooklyn, and I would have to clarify that.
Brooklyn Sudano
#40. It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true statement: corporations are not people.
Chellie Pingree
#41. Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
Robin G. Collingwood
#42. We read because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them,in their problems.And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselves ...
F. Sionil Jose
#43. Knowing the difference between right and wrong sometimes did not serve to clarify much of anything. Just because a man is able to draw his line in the sand, it doesn't mean he'll know what to do when his only course of action requires crossing it.
Graham Moore
#44. to clarify our vision of how utterly the Nazi mentality corrupted moral reality for the victims . . . may enable us to comprehend better how little discredit falls to these victims, who were plunged into a crisis of what might call 'choiceless choice
Lawrence Langer
#45. Absolutely, but let me qualify that-I consider myself an authentic feminist. Not as defined by the modern movement. And, let me clarify that a little bit more. I was an English major, so break it down: -ist means one who celebrates. As a feminist, I celebrate my femininity.
Christine O'Donnell
#46. As an explanation tool, the concept of class serves, first and foremost, to clarify who gains and who losses from specific economic processes and policies and with what consequences.
Alejandro Portes
#47. Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.
Nathan Goldstein
#48. The best things to use is your fantasy,if you do not use your fantasy then who are you? You must use your fantasy to clarify what is inside you.
A Gentleman
#49. El hambre agudiza el ingenio," said Raphael.
Hunger sharpens the wit.
"Good proverb," said Magnus. "However, like most proverbs, it sounds wise and yet does not actually clarify anything.
Cassandra Clare
#50. What did it clarify for you?" Pinky asked.
Mrs. Brown laughed. "Told me to keep doing and saying what I dam well please, and not be bamboozled by anyone. Life is too short - no mulling things over for a dozen years or so. What about you?"
"I wasn't on the ship
Kate Alcott
#51. My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation ... We should be honest in telling these agencies we often don't know where some ideas are going to lead, but we hope they are going to clarify a problem.
David Mumford
#52. Meditation will do you a disservice. It will confuse you more than clarify you. It will bring tremendous impurity in you - if you are allowing your mind to wander during the empowered experience.
Frederick Lenz
#53. Mourning can be very selfish. When someone you love has died, you tend to recall best those few moments and incidents that helped clarify your sense, not of the person who has died, but of your own self.
Russell Banks
#54. I have no interest in art. Let me clarify - I have no interest in non-nude images.
Aziz Ansari
#55. For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.
Lawren Harris
#56. The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast.
Emil M. Cioran
#57. The things you have heard are true; we are the mothers of monsters. We would, however, like to clarify a few points. For instance, by the time we realized what Jeffrey had been up to, he was gone.
Ellen Datlow
#58. It's an opaque term, intensive care. Specialists in the field prefer to call what they do critical care, but that still doesn't exactly clarify matters.
Atul Gawande
#59. If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.
Wentworth Miller
#60. By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#61. Leaders succeed or fail depending on whether or not they clarify role expectations and keep their promises.
Bob Anderson
#62. Dearest Annie, Roses are red. Violets are blue. I'm using my hand But I'm thinking of you. - Ronan P.S. Just to clarify, I'm using my hand to write this note ... get your mind out of the gutter.
L. H. Cosway
#63. Did my dad fool the medical professionals or were we involved with a system that avoided end-of-life discussions? Those conversations might have given my dad the opportunity to focus on last wishes, meaningful conversations, and clarify his needs.
Lisa J. Shultz
#64. I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.
Conor Oberst
#65. To clarify, the issue isn't that I'm too fat, it's that I'm too phat. Can I get a WHAT-WHAT!
Casey Wilson
#67. Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.
Dean Koontz
#68. Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules,
Elaine Chao
#69. Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.
Clay Shirky
#70. At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are?
-Richard
Douglas Coupland
#71. And the pressure to clarify what exactly is happening to Christians and other minorities in the Middle East is certain to intensify in the New Year.
Tom Gjelten
#72. Sometimes the most important job advertising can do, is to clarify the obvious.
Jay Chiat
#73. Thank you to all the people who have triggered my issues. You have helped me clarify what they are, start the healing process and ultimately become a better person.
Renae A. Sauter
#74. Getting closer to someone doesn't necessarily clarify anything. It's like staring at an electron micrograph. You're closer but nothing's any simpler.
Sonja Yoerg
#75. I'm not lucky, I'm just privileged. There's a big difference," I clarify indifferently.
Marissa Carmel
#76. I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.
Michael Gove
#77. I get it. You'd rather have him, broken, than me whole. If that didn't clarify my chances with you, nothing would. But you can't have what you want either, Deuce. I can't be your friend, feeling like this. Give me some time, and then ... Maybe. No promises.
Ann Aguirre
#78. Moses had to re-check Gods' directions constantly. He obeyed God, spoke to Pharaoh, and everything went wrong, but Moses didn't quit. He went back to the Lord to clarify what was happening.
Henry T. Blackaby
#79. I don't feel the need to explain my actions to her. I don't clarify, I don't doubt, I don't worry. I don't tell her everything, not anymore, but I tell her more than anyone else, by far. I tell her as much as I can.
Gillian Flynn
#80. A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation
Albert Bandura
#81. Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming your own resolve. Then, headslap them out of your way.
Deacon Jones
#82. The Mask of Sanity - An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality.7
Donald W. Black
#83. To make a long story short, Cantorian set theory helps unify and clarify math in the sense that all mathematical entities can now be understood as fundamentally the same kind of thing-a set.
David Foster Wallace
#84. You can do almost anything if you are willing to clarify your commitments and make incremental investments over time to achieve them.
Michael Hyatt
#85. Do not assume that people are seeing you. The more you can clarify, optimize, and engage your fans and strangers with branded marketing and merchandise, the better chance you have of being seen and then heard.
Loren Weisman
#86. I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.
Richelle Mead
#87. graphics should not simplify messages. They should clarify them, highlight trends, uncover patterns, and reveal realities not visible before.
Alberto Cairo
#88. Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
L. Ron Hubbard
#89. Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
Ansel Adams
#90. Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade ...
Errol Morris
#91. He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious way so as to clarify the position as desired is Capablanca's own.
Max Euwe
#92. If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent.
John Conyers
#93. Like those dreaded dinner party words 'Longtime Companion' or Partner.' Sometimes I just want to scream, 'is she your wife or is she your mistress? Please clarify the nature of your bloody relationship!
Suzanne Stroh
#94. So to clarify, I like you. More than like you. You're my happy.
Renita Pizzitola
#96. Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed ...
Toni Cade Bambara
#97. Quotes help us understand , inspire , motivate ,clarify and show our approach to things around , this is why people and I love quotes
Takyou Allah Cheikh Malaynine
#98. Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are ... the process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions.
Barack Obama
#99. Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.
Diane Ackerman
#100. So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.
Keith Rabois