Quotes About Ambiguity

What was the vision for our team? What big goals would we sign up for? I wanted to decide this in Athens, as a team with Matt in person. I wanted us to make big bets and show the company we could have visions of cathedrals and build them with bazaar methods. What I didn't want was to spend days riffing on yet more ideas, only to return home was as much ambiguity as when we'd arrived. The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

I am sure of nothing except that to believe you know where you are headed is not to understand where one is at the moment.

Get used to gaps in your comprehension," said Sabetha. "The rest of us certainly have.

Creative people generally are self-motivated, independent, delighted by novelty, risk takers, tolerant of ambiguity, deeply involved in their work, avid readers, and world travelers.

Maybe some of both.

The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable.

All I know is a door into the dark

Since when," he asked, "Are the first line and last line of any poem Where the poem begins and ends?

Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm doing.

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.

Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

I'm fascinated by evil queens. They're very alluring and repellent at the same time, and I'm into that dichotomy.

For the first time all day I felt safe. Except that Patch had cornered me in a dark tunnel and was possibly stalking me. Maybe not so safe.

Even I don't know what I'm saying most of the time.

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.

Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

I don't know which way to take Donald Trump. And only time will tell. Only time will tell.