Quotes About Subtlety

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Procuraba dársela con cierta vaguedad, para que al final creyera que la decisión era suya. Este sistema siempre me sirvió bien. Un hombre hace lo que puede, una mujer hace lo que el hombre no puede.

There are no subtleties in a war zone. I think that's why comedy does so well there. It goes right for the gut. So those punch lines start penetrating the bullet-proof vests.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

Humans are generally much trickier to draw because we're so used to looking at and analyzing human faces. The slightest tweak makes a huge difference in how we perceive that character.

I know from teaching, that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.

We're always trying to really ground it, and I use this term a thousand times, it's a score I want people to feel and not necessarily hear.

Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

The frail letters on the first page were barely legible; they looked like whispers, if whispers had form.

Woods were ringed with a colour so soft, so subtle that it could scarcely be said to be a colour at all. It was more the idea of a colour - as if the trees were dreaming green dreams or thinking green thoughts.

Sandra to Christie on Matt: So he's been a meanie today has he. The boy's got the subtlety of a brick to the head. I do apologize.

The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever.

Even in early adulthood, men can't be told what to wear; they can only be subtly moved by example, encouragement, and a generally sophisticated atmosphere.

You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence. –

charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people -- and this is true whether or not they are well-educated -- is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambigous or even contradictory situations -- in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.