Quotes About Ambivalence

I'm not doubtful that I am doing what I should be doing - writing for theater - and that I'm doing it in a way no one else does it. Whether anyone else is paying attention or anyone else cares, I'm still ambivalent about that. It's still an open question.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

Playing at the highest level alongside your friends, scoring runs for your country are things that I look back and go, 'Ah, I miss that a little bit,' but there's a lot I don't miss. I don't miss 90 per cent of it.

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

There are days when I even long for the paralegal job that once upon a time made me so miserable. It wasn't the perfect fit for me but it was satisfying to go to sleep each night after a hard day's work at the office.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

alla fine prevaleva quel piatto e anestetizzante trascorrere del tempo, che non accendeva l'entusiasmo ma neppure infliggeva sofferenza.

Bootlickers rise easily and rapidly through the ladder in the corporate world.

There is no will unmingled with hesitation, and no hesitation unmingled with will.

Sometimes I really hate being right.

why I did things I didn't want to do and couldn't do what I wanted.

Even criticism is more interesting when the writer's authority does not only come through this omniscient narrator, but through questions, ambivalence, vulnerability. A mind questioning and on the move, not just settling down and declaring - that's one of the most interesting possibilities.

I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.

The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave.

I didn't wake up one day and think, 'I'm not going to have children.' My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen.

I think the thing I fear most in life is waking up one day and not feeling challenge - feeling ambivalent or glib about what I have to do that day.

If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.

I am happy and satisfied at the end of my career, but not much. Yes, I would have loved to leave the stage in a better way.

There are times when I wonder about the films I'm doing. Other times, I'm happy about what I've achieved and have myself a blast. I'm human.

Bollywood didn't know what to do with me. And I didn't know what to do with it, because I didn't want to do its kind of films.

I was a borderline guy in the NFL.

If I never competed again, it wouldn't bother me. I don't care.

I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I didn't give up until about ten days. I don't think I really told my father. I really didn't like my father knowing my things were not successful.