“I pray because I am real clear that what I am doing and how I am doing it is my service, is my ministry, and so I want to be in perfect alignment with my creator. I do not care who you are. If I do not get the okay on the inside, you will not be showing up on the outside.” IfsWantRealCarePerfectClearPrayingOkayWho You AreCreatorMinistryI PrayAlignmentShowing Up Author:Iyanla Vanzant
“I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then.” CareCertainClearPositionHusbandOkayMy HusbandIncidentsKayaking Author:Mariel Hemingway
“But after about a year praying, there was just this clear direction. The leadership team believed that God was leading us to focus on fatherhood. If God is leading, then God will provide. So we begin to get storyline ideas that lined up with the subject of fatherhood that we're working on and fitting, and we were thinking, okay this is good. At the same time, as we are studying scriptures and we're on our journey as fathers, we are learning about fatherhood every day.” IfsThinkingYearsIdeasFatherStudyClearFocusJourneyTeamSubjectsPrayingOkayScriptureGods WillFatherhoodFittingStorylineGod Will ProvideClear Direction Author:Stephen Kendrick
“Except in a few cases like Music for Airports, which was a very clear case of noticing a niche [and] saying, "Okay, there's this situation in which people always play music, and nobody has written music for that situation so I'm going to." So, that was a very clear example of spotting a niche and working for it. I have done that occasionally.” PeopleDonePlaySituationCasesClearWrittenExampleOkayAirportsNicheNoticing Author:Brian Eno
“I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be completely horrified by the entire film. And as long as they understood that, it was okay. I'm not much of a fan of DVD commentaries myself, so this was my way of getting revenge, in a sense, for all the puffed-up directors and stars who talk endlessly about the self-aggrandizing minutiae of making a movie.” PeopleIfsWayLongMadeSelfWould BeWantedFilmStarsClearFansDirectorsUnderstoodOkayRevengeMy WayCommentCommentaryDvdsParamountMinutiaeSnicketDreamworksGetting Revenge Author:Daniel Handler
“I think people like to have everything be perfectly morally clear. When the lines get blurred it worries them. I'm not worried. I don't think the men are either. But I think that the videos bring up feelings in people that they don't want to feel. Sometimes people get really mad. That's okay.” PeopleThinkingMenWantFeelsSometimesFeelingsLinesWorryClearHe ManOkayMadVideoWorriedGet Real Author:Laurel Nakadate
“I think whoever runs next time has to have a very clear idea of where he or she wants to take America and has to run on those ideas, because the election cannot be about personalities, participants sniping, all of the irrelevant stuff the day after the election sort of dissipates, and you wake up and say, okay, now what am I going to do?” ThinkingWantIdeasRunningAmericaNextStuffClearPersonalityOkayWake UpElectionNext TimeIrrelevantParticipantsSniping Author:Hillary Clinton
“I started taping my dad's auditions when I was 11, when he was auditioning actors for one of his movies. I would see, over and over again, that there wasn't just one actor for the role. It was really clear that there were a lot of people who could play a character really well, and it would always come down to something kind of weird and non-obvious as to why a person was cast. If you're not right, you're not right, but that's okay.” PeopleIfsWellsKindPersonsPlayCharacterActorsRolesClearDadOkayMy DadCastsObviousJust OneAuditions Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“All children in the '50s were taught manners, they were taught to say please and thank you, they were taught not to be rude. And I'm seeing some problems today where somebody's losing a job because they made fun of a fat lady that couldn't fit in the elevator. I mean that was the sort of thing that, when I was eight years old, my mother made it very clear to me that that was not okay to say that kind of stuff.” YearsKindMeanChildrenMadeProblemTodayJobsMotherFunStuffClearSeeingTaughtFitPleaseLosingOkayEightFatsMade ItMannersRudeElevatorsNot OkayPlease And Thank You Author:Temple Grandin
“Look,' I said, struggling to keep up, 'I just wanna make one thing absolutely clear. I don't believe in guns. I just want peace. Okay?' Alessandro stopped in the middle of the corridor, took out the gun, and wrapped my hand around it before I realized what he was doing. 'Can you feel that? That's a gun. It exists. And there are a lot of people out there who do believe in it. So, excused me for taking care of them so you can have your peace.” PeopleWantFeelsBelieveLooksSaidHandsCareStruggleClearOne ThingMiddleGunOkayDon't BelieveI RealizedCorridors Book:Juliet: A Novel Source: Juliet: A Novel
“Cause I am strong and I can prove it And I got my dreams to see me through It's just a mountain, I can move it And with faith enough there's nothing I can't do And I can see the light of a clear blue morning And I can see the light of brand new day I can see the light of a clear blue morning And everything's gonna be all right It's gonna be okay [lyrics from "Light of a Clear Blue Morning"]” I CanEnoughDreamLightMovingStrongCausesMorningClearMountainProveOkayBlueBrandsNew DayProve ItBrand NewI Am StrongBrand New Day Author:Dolly Parton
“Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. "You and me". "I promise". I say. behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: "Don't believe her.” BelieveEyeTogetherTurnsVoiceBehindsForeverClearCuttingDoorsAirPromiseOkayBlueDon't BelieveHis EyesSwimPoolExpectingFloatsTransparentI PromiseRavensPromise Me Author:Lauren Oliver