Quotes About Nuance

Sometimes I sound like gravel, and sometimes I sound like coffee and cream.

Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.

All the Southerners think we're Yanks, and all the Yanks think we're Southerners, and all the Midwesterners think we're East. Everybody's always wrong about Louisville. That's kind of why I love it so much.

What's funny in Italy may not be funny in Spain.

During a radio interview, when I tried explaining to the journalist the nuance and the difference between the two statements I was told that I was "too complicated"; so I simply walked out of the studio, leaving them in the lurch. The depressing part is that those people who were committing such mistakes were educated journalists entrusted to represent the world to us lay persons.

but there is no point reading too much into success stories because we do not see the full picture.

There is no absolute measure of good or bad. It is not what you are telling people, it is how you are saying it.

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

Things are not as simple as that. We

Our inferential machinery, that which we use in daily life, is not made for a complicated environment in which a statement changes markedly when its wording is slightly modified.

There are many things without words, matters that we know and can act on but cannot describe directly

The emotion was there but it wasn't spelled out in neon.

The varieties are not like islands, carefully apart," Perales explained. "They are more like gentle hills in a landscape—you see them, they are clearly present, but you cannot specify precisely where they start.

How a word more or less, an idea omitted or added, a syllable misplaced, can transform a whole sentence and make what was before harmless, really shocking!

There are two types of people in this world," Pete volunteers helpfully, "those who think there are only two types of people in the world, and everybody else.

I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.

Many mothers or daughters assume that words only mean one thing. 'If I feel criticised, that has to be the whole story', and 'if I feel I am being helpful, that has to be the whole story'.

It is a lesson that one has to learn continually in New Orleans. Things are always more complex than they seem.

Matters are very seldom all black or white. They can even be both at the same time - The Beer Fairy

Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better. However, Leigh-Cheri and Bernard were occupied with the nuances of an intricate dance, so let's be generous and cut them some slack.)

You have to live in the grey, or you have no kindness in your heart.

When people tell their stories again and again, turning them over and over, they're trying to make or find meaning in them. That meaning is something they have to discover for themselves. As painful as the process might be, there is no circumnavigating it, either with the most thoughtful ideas you can offer or with the most hackneyed clichés. The meaning a person finds will almost never be the same one you can come up with. It will always be richer, more nuanced, more surprising.

The world is not black and white. There is no black and white. There's only gray. You have to live in the gray, or you got no kindness in your heart. You gotta see the gray.