Quotes About Nuance

There isn't just one black experience out here.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

Incomprehensible is no better than banal – it's just its flip-side.

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.

The limits of binary thinking are spooky enough

It reveals that people are confusing." Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way to mounds and mounds of ice.

My point is, it's not cut and dried, black and white, good and bad. It lives where everything lives: somewhere in the middle. Where everything lives, where all the rest of us live, everyone but you.

Everyday words are inherently imprecise. They work well enough in everyday life that you don't notice. Words seem to work, just as Newtonian physics seems to. But you can always make them break if you push them far enough.

The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

The world is undergoing a movement toward authoritarianism, Delaney, and this is about order. People think the world is out of control. They want someone to stop the changes. This aligns perfectly with what the Every is doing: feeding the urge to control, to reduce nuance, to categorize, and to assign numbers to anything inherently complex. To simplify. To tell us how it will be. An authoritarian promises these things, too.

Always be sure to never speak in absolutes.

context is not meaning.

Humans are not like dogs which can only see either black or white.

Concentrate on the small things and do them well.

Ik weet niet hoe woorden dat tot stand brengen, dat de zin opglinstert en veel meer zegt dan de inhoud van zijn woorden.

There are codes so subtle that they change their whole meaning in half a line, or in a syllable, or in a pause, a caesura.