Quotes About Nuance

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.

The most important problems we face are complex, and require sustained attention. But we don't speak in terms of nuance or complexity. Is that by accident? It's because our minds have been entrained to expect shorter and shorter bite-sized bits.

I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.

Everything in life is a double-edged sword.

Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of systemic discrimination and abuse faced by disabled people.

Being absolutely sure that one is right is part of growing up, and so is realizing, years later, that the truth might be more nuanced.

Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the most admirable character in a novel, and she hoped for more nuanced engagement from her own readers. Even so, all readers make books over in their own image, and according to their own experience.

Describing your action too precisely can be as condescending as describing your characters' emotions. Far better to give your readers some hints and then allow them to fill in the blanks for themselves. This

We're up against a public that wants a smoking gun . . .We know the public wants, demands, something simple. And we're also very much aware that we live in a time of rampant science denial. Nobody does nuance anymore.

La ambigüedad, lejos de ser una carga, representa la clave de un lenguaje óptimo flexible. Y esta propiedad es seguramente universal.

Here, race was so difficult and complicated, it was a kaleidoscope you could keep on turning.

The two alternatives are always exclusionary, usually in an angry way: things are either totally right or totally wrong, with me or against me, male or female, Democrat or Republican, Christian or pagan, on and on and on. The binary mind provides quick security and false comfort, but never wisdom. It thinks it is smart because it counters your idea with an opposing idea. There is usually not much room for a "reconciling third." I see this in myself almost every day.

there are always more than two sides to a story, that nobody is ever as bad as people think, and nobody is ever as good as people think.

If you are minimal, then even a small gesture becomes a big deal.

No hay nada en la vida que sea solo bueno o solo malo.

What if all that happens to us is exactly what schools us in how to evolve in love in the course of life? That is the very definition of synchronicity, meaningful coincidence: Just the right events and people come along to allow us to articulate the love we are inside. All of them are emissaries of some nuance of light we need to let the full colors of our love appear in all their incandescence.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

From them, I learned another lesson: that I can accept-in fact am relieved to accept-a world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. There is much good, but to enjoy the beauty, the love, one must bear the painful.

The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.

Doing so, however, reinforces a problematic "we" that discounts those with disabilities by suggesting all of us occupy failed embodiments in some way without an ability to attend to crip/queer materiality's nuances of experience.

Todo esto empieza a hacer que el hábito de los antropólogos de colocar a los nobles yurok o a los artistas kwakiutl juntos en el saco de forrajeadores opulentos o cazadores-recolectores complejos parezca un tanto estúpido: el equivalente a afirmar que un ejecutivo petrolero de Texas y un poeta egipcio medieval son agriculturalistas complejos porque comen un montón de trigo.

Nice can have an edge.