Quotes About Ambiguity

You could say that they were sweet, or you could say that they were something out of a horror movie.

the professor talking about eigengrau—intrinsic gray, brain gray. It was the color you "saw" when light was totally absent, a kind of visual noise, like snow static on a television.

What's it called?" she asked. "La putain enormé," said Ada. "What does it mean?

said the bald little androgyny.

I try to remember that the job — as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy — of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

I've learned to be wary of those times when I think I know what I'm doing. I've discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue...

of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land.

Even the imperative to make choice after choice without clear guidance - allegedly the most nerve-wracking part of the profession - isn't exclusive to writing.

Los indicadores de la autorregulación emocional son, por consiguiente, fáciles de ver: tendencia a reflexionar y a meditar, comodidad ante la ambigüedad y el cambio, y también integridad, es decir, capacidad de reprimir deseos impulsivos.

As the old saying goes, a man with one watch always knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure.

It doesn't mean,' she shrugged. 'It just is

It was as if I had been looking at the whole thing clearly on the blackboard of my mind, but when I turned to read it, part of it had been erased and the rest didn't make sense.

It doesn't mean - she shrugged. It just is - like a poem.

the fact that both of these hostile camps could make use of the same examples to prove diametrically opposed interpretations suggests a truth about how all of us read and interpret literary texts—one that is, possibly, rooted in the mysteries of human nature itself. Where some people see chaos and incoherence, others will find sense and symmetry and wholeness.

can't imagine when she wanted to evoke some positive, pleasant memory of her past, as if there were no point in trying to use more concrete, more descriptive adjectives

The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

Or perhaps the best that can be hoped for—as a play on the "MAD" (mutually assured destruction) of the U.S.-Soviet nuclear standoff in the Cold War years—may be "MAA," "mutually assured ambiguity." But seeking to address issues in a multilateral framework, with a critical role for ASEAN, would help modulate the conviction that the South China Sea is fundamentally a standoff between China and the United States.

Uncertainly always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.

"We are continually faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvable problems."

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity.

She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

Behind us the walls of the house were dark; the lighted windows shone as if they were floating and might twist or slant or change places.