Quotes About Nuance

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else

Farmecul, pitorescul, partea interesant? a vieÈ›ii unui om cu temperament puternic, zbuciumat È™i, în acelaÈ™i timp, aventuros nu st? totdeauna în faptele izbitoare ale acestei vieÈ›i. FrumuseÈ›ea trebuie s-o cauÈ›i - de cele mai multe ori - în am?nunte.

We talked about each story for a while, and then Verla talked about heroes and villains. 'Nobody is all good or all bad,' she told us. 'The world is painted in shades of gray.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere inbetween.

No lo entiendo. ¿Aquí quién es el bueno? —No siempre hay un bueno. Ni siempre hay un malo. Casi todo el mundo está en algún punto intermedio.

No one wanted to hear that people other than themselves might be complicated, that no one was ever just one thing, no history ever just one version.

No todos en la vida somos buenos o malos, casi todos estamos en un punto medio

Not everything is black and white. In fact, almost nothing is.

No siempre hay un bueno. Ni siempre hay un malo. Casi todo el mundo esta en un punto intermedio

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between. Conor

No siempre hay un bueno. Ni siempre hay un malo. Casi todo el mundo está en un punto intermedio.

No siempre hay un bueno. Ni siempre hay un malo. Casi todo el mundo está en algún punto intermedio.

Non sempre c'è un buono. Come non c'è sempre un cattivo. La maggior parte delle persone è una via di mezzo fra le due cose.

The majority of important things cannot be said outright, they cannot be made explicit. They can only be implied.

A well-spoken sentence in Aturan is a straight line pointing. A well-spoken sentence in Adem is like a spiderweb, each strand with a meaning of its own, a piece of something greater, more complex.

Una sonrisa, por ejemplo, puede significar que estás divertido, feliz, agradecido o satisfecho. Puedes sonreír para consolar a alguien. Puedes sonreír porque estás contento o porque estás enamorado. Una sonrisa compungida o una sonrisa de burla no se distinguen mucho de una sonrisa de alegría, pero significan cosas muy diferentes.

The majority of important things cannot be said outright.

To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.

You can never be too subtle, and you can never be too simple.

Not bad. Human. You've really got to stop seeing things as all bad or all good. And you've got to learn that just because someone tells you something that you don't want to hear, doesn't mean that person's out to get you.

What makes community building so complex is that it occurs in an infinite number of small steps, sometimes in quiet moments that we notice out of the corner of our eye. It calls for us to treat as important many things that we thought we incidental. An afterthought becomes the point; a comment made in passing defines who we are more than all that came before. If the artist is one who captures the nuance of experience, then this is whom each of us must become.

Pitting the learning of basic knowledge against the development of creative thinking is a false choice. Both need to be cultivated. The stronger one's knowledge about the subject at hand, the more nuanced one's creativity can be in addressing a new problem. Just as knowledge amounts to little without the exercise of ingenuity and imagination, creativity absent a sturdy foundation of knowledge builds a shaky house.