Quotes About Ambiguity

In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

Chinese sometimes is fuzzy, but its beauty lies in its fuzziness.

They know they're supposed to do something, but they're not sure what. And you know what they do when they're not sure-- of course you do: They either do the wrong thing or they do nothing, and it's a toss up as to which is worse.

But though we must pretend otherwise in order to function, none of us can know the script for any day.

The Constitution threatens to be a subject of infinite sects, like the Bible." And, as with many sects, those politicians who most strenuously staked their arguments on the Constitution often appeared the least acquainted with it.

WHEN IT WAS DECIDED (When was that again, and by whom?) that we were all supposed to choose between fiction and nonfiction, what was not taken into account was that for some of us truth can never be an absolute, that there can (at best) be only less true and more true and sometimes those two collapse inside each other like aTurducken.

The night before I'd discovered am lost in almost. Did everyone already know?

The Christopher Columbus Aware: This award goes to those who, like good old Chris, when they set out to do something, don't know where they are going; neither do they know how to get there. When they arrive, they don't know where they are, and when they return, they don't know where they've been.

Frazier realized that many suppositions would never be proved. There were possibilities and probabilities and few provabilities.

It's certain that you cannot tell from how a person works or how a person strolls behind her hens what kind of life they live in secrecy.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

I don't rightly know. It just ain't possible to explain some things, maybe even most things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it - take it for what it is, and get on with your getting." (91)

Only experience can refine a leader's art. High-uncertainty projects are full of anxiety, change, and ambiguity that the team must deal with. It takes a different style of project management, a different pattern of team operation, and a different type of project leader. I've labeled this type of management leadership-collaboration.

Twilight souls, caught somewhere between dark and light, knowing and unknowing. Neither one thing nor another. A crossbreed race.

So while it was clear that Raymond had a vision, Jeffery still had a hard time working out precisely what vision that might be. Is he a genius or a complete idiot? And, for that matter, what would you call Jeffery for thinking all of this?

Something's about to end. Or start. I'm not sure. I just know we're not in the middle anymore. It's safer in the middle.

There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors.

The objective of the scenario approach is not to decide which scenario is right…. There is no 'right' answer.

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

Prophecy is only sometimes helpful.

Not even Necessity knows all ends.

Em Diadorim, penso também – mas Diadorim é a minha neblina...

Certo, per quello che Zé Bebelo aveva fatto; ma sbagliato per quello che Zé Bebelo era e non era. Chi sa davvero quello che è una persona? E piuttosto: ogni processo è sempre difettoso, perché quello che la gente giudica è il passato.