"Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all."

-- Julian Barnes

#Simple Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Clarity Quotes

“If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.21
“The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.”
“The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 25, 2015
“For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.”
“You canâ€™t mandate [cultural change], canâ€™t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can define the marketplace realities and goals. But then you have to trust. In fact, in the end, management doesnâ€™t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.”
“I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I'm not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for attention is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress.”

Source : "REEL Lady: Masiela Lusha". REEL Ladies Interview, reelladies.wordpress.com. September 1, 2008.
“Of course I have bad hair days; Iâ€™m human.”
“In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.”

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