Quotes About Nuance

Real life is never black and white why must the movies be?

Love is very complicated and it's never black and white, as I'm sure we all know in our lives.

My Open record is not particularly good if you look at it on paper. But at the same time I don't feel like it is as bad as the black and white suggests.

I don't think of people as out-and-out black or white.

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

You can't wait for someone to discover you; you have to just get on and do it. Have confidence that directing is a very suitable job for a woman - with our gift for collaboration, listening, and reading the nuance of things.

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.

There was a way of looking at the world where practically every single thing that happened had some kind of double meaning.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

We can't be direct, so we end up saying the weirdest things.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider's web holding fast to a doomed fly's wings. And when you're caught like that you're aware of every moment & movement & nuance.

Just because you're fighting evil doesn't mean you're good. And just because you're doing evil doesn't mean you're bad. You end up with the conclusion that there is no ultimate right or wrong. It's all shades of gray.

There are so many colors in black and white.

You may believe that you are subtler, more insightful, and more nuanced than the linear caricature of your thinking. But in fact, you are mostly noisier.

The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership (2005). He advises that a leader "needs to be able to see the shades of gray inherent in a situation in order to make wise decisions as to how to proceed" (p. 7). He encourages leaders to examine all arguments without forming an opinion, using an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote for support: "The test of a first-rate mind is the ability to hold two opposing thoughts at the same time while still retaining the ability to function

But" is a three-letter stroke of genius. It keeps things in perspective. It prevents me from turning too rigid and self-righteous. It reminds me that hardly anything in life is black or white.

Ce n'est qu'avec la nuance qu'on peut avancer. Je tiens la nuance pour la forme la plus persuasive qui soit, et parfois la plus subversive. Ne pas mettre tout dans le même panier est devenu une rareté qui confine, malheureusement peut-être, à l'originalité.

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other.

The world was far more complicated and nuanced than his categorical moral vision had led him to believe. The ability to learn from the excesses of his egocentric behavior, to alter course, to profit from error, was essential to his growth.

Whatever is wrong, I am sure with his sense of the picturesque, Francis will succeed in manifesting a fadeur exquise.

If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction a delta springing from the riverbed with its five fingers spread

The human mind is capable of greatness, but we have been trained to process information with efficiency, which can sometimes mean superficially. We grab on to salient identifiers, often at the expense of devoting attention to more nuanced details. - Hank Beckman, Pg. 266

There is beauty in the least beautiful of things.