Quotes About Nuance

If we want to change the nuance of a particular word we have to change that ourselves.

I consider myself a basketball aficionado and really understand and know the nuance. I'm a fan of the game. But more than an everyday fan. I love the nuance of the game.

In everything I do, having it be important or try to express something or it having the ability to demystify something or draw attention to the nuance of something is always interesting to me.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.

Dar adev?rul nu st? într-un singur fapt. AÈ™a cum un om nu are doar cutare vârst?, atâtea kilograme, cutare în?lÈ›ime È™i culoare a ochilor È™i a p?rului. Un om este toate acestea, plus înc? ceva. Iar acest ceva e mai important decât toate acestea. Tot astfel, adev?rul e un num?r de fapte, plus înc? ceva. Întotdeauna. Faptele singure nu sunt niciodat? întreg adev?rul.

They lived in a blurry world, those two, where clear, consistent intentions weren't required.

When we think or act this way, we do so at either one extreme or the other. For example, either we love someone completely or we hate them. There is no middle ground. We see the people around us as either good or bad, and not the composite they really are. We judge ourselves equally as harshly. The more we use all-or-none thinking, the more it opens us up to behaving in an all-or-none fashion. Both of these actions tend to get us into trouble and to cause us to suffer unnecessarily.

The truth is not in the middle, and not in one extreme; but in both extremes.

Descriptive statistics exist to simplify, which always implies some loss of nuance or detail.

The answer to most problems is more often than not outside of the right-wrong binary that we tend to cling to when we're angry or scared or in pain. We are a complicated people. Our lives do not play out in absolutes.

think the answer to most problems is more often than not outside of the right/wrong binary that we tend to cling to when we're angry or scared or in pain.

I think the answer to most problems is more often than not outside of the right/wrong binary that we tend to cling to when we're angry or scared or in pain. We are complicated people. Our lives do not play out in absolutes.

There is as much meaning in a wink as a word.

If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter.

Things in life are never just black or white…They are many shades in between, so before you make a snap judgement consider what's going on around you…everyone is fighting some battle of their own and it's not all about you.

I maintain that (as usual) many sides exist to this issue rather than only two. Two-sided issues (creationism vs darwinism, "choice" vs "pro-life," etc.) are all without exception delusions , spectacular lies.

No characters in 'Stay Close ' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Why do you want the world to be black and white? It's not.

real life is complicated, messy, unquantifiable, contextual, full of paradoxes and contradictions.

Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

Instead of toggling between victory and defeat, we have to learn to live in the middle, in the gray area, where a real life can unfold on its own time.

That there were more ways than just two, wider possibilities than hidden or betrayed, stalled or brokenhearted, male or female, right or wrong. Middle ways. Ways beyond.