A Quote by Julian Barnes

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

Julian Barnes

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Julian Barnes
English - Writer
Born: January 19, 1946

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

George Oppen

What's seemingly a simple thing can actually be the hardest to achieve.

Roger Deakins

The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.

Anne Geddes

I want to be the band everyone knows that goes hardest. Plays the hardest, parties the hardest, lives the hardest, loves the hardest, does everything the hardest, harder than anybody else.

Austin Carlile

Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.

Johan Cruijff

I love emotional, intense stuff; it's easier to grab onto than just being simple. Being simple and relaxed can be the hardest thing. It can be easier to get your hooks into something big.

Mark Pellegrino

The hardest thing, and the most difficult thing, is to do the most simple thing. Because that means that you've had to weed out every other option. I kind of feel like that about a good pop song, too. When it's right, it's perfect, you know?

Dr. Luke

The little black dress is the hardest thing to realize because you must keep it simple.

Hubert de Givenchy

I think the hardest thing is losing weight. That's the hardest thing more than anything else.

Aretha Franklin

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

Johan Cruijff

The hardest thing in life is reinventing yourself and staying at the top of your game, whilst the hardest thing in football is finding that club you want to stay at.

Diego Simeone

You know that thing people say, 'poetry is the hardest, stories are the second hardest, novels are the easiest?' I'm here to tell you that novels are the hardest. Writing a novel is unbelievably difficult. It's nightmarish.

Ethan Canin

We thought the hardest thing in the world was to get a record deal, then the hardest was to get a No. 1 record, and then the hardest thing is to stay at the top. It's a lot of work.

David Bryan

The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.

John Calipari

The hardest thing is to get started, but the really hardest thing is to finish.

Yogi Berra

By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood. Clarity is certainly a way toward disorientation because if you don't start out - if the reader isn't grounded, if the reader is disoriented in the beginning of the poem, then the reader can't be led astray or disoriented later.

Billy Collins

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