Quotes About Ambiguity

It's not just exciting to build things but to explore new fields and to recognize what comes with that is a lot of uncertainty.

My students are often asking me, 'What do you think are the most important qualities for a writer?' And one thing I always tells them is that it's helpful to be willing to sit in a space of uncertainty. There are entire years, especially with novels, where you really don't know where the project is going.

As an actor, your life is filled with so much uncertainty.

Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.

Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.

It's funny, you know, growing up, you are always introduced to people as your uncle this or your aunt that or your cousin this. By the time I was in my 20s, I had no idea who I actually was or wasn't related to. It's kind of a running joke in the family.

There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.

I'd read the book and liked the book, but it made me really uncomfortable trying to picture myself in this part. Here's this guy who seems to be the embodiment of every single perfect guy.

I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.

This is supposed to be the Big Apple, with neighborhoods where the houses are all good-looking and the skyscrapers and everything. But to me, New York is kind of shoddy and uncomfortable.

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important. Better a stable world that's familiar, in which I'm doing pretty poorly, than dealing with all the ambiguity of a changing world.

Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.

My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

I'm always just drawn to those roles that present one way and have many other things going on underneath. It's just more fun to play as an actor.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.