Quotes About Ambiguity

I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

Is it dangerous? Hmm. Well, define 'dangerous.' Is a knife 'dangerous'? Is Russian roulette 'dangerous'? Is arsenic 'dangerous'? ...It really depends on your perspective.

It was a very inexact apocalypse.

On the hill we used a different, vaguer calendar than the one I've since learned. The seasons ours described—summer, dimming, and winter—were suited to a different place: the mountain had two seasons at most.

Gelece?in ne getirece?ini kimse bilemezdi ve ?imdi olanlar? dü?ünüp üzülmenin de hiçbir yarar? yoktu. Önemli olan sonundaki zaferi kazanmakt?.

As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don't have a clue how to measure them.

Most of the big problems we encounter in organizations or society are ambiguous and evolving. They don't look like burning-platform situations, where we need people to buckle down and execute a hard but well-understood game plan. To solve bigger, more ambiguous problems, we need to encourage open minds, creativity, and hope.

The old pattern is powerful, so make sure to script the critical moves, because ambiguity is the enemy.

If you're worried about the possibility of rationalization at home or at work, you need to squeeze out the ambiguity from your goal. You need a black-and-white (B&W) goal. A B&W goal is an all-or-nothing goal, and it's useful in times when you worry about backsliding.

WHEN LIFE OFFERS US a "this or that" choice, we should have the gall to ask whether the right answer might be "both.

The ambiguity in the goal is allowing rationalization to creep in.

Ambiguity does, too. In times of change, you may not know what options are available. And this uncertainty leads to decision paralysis

Any successful change requires a translation of ambiguous goals into concrete behaviors. In short, to make a switch, you need to script the critical moves.

What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

If you are leading a change effort, you need to remove the ambiguity from your vision of change. Granted

Ambiguity is the enemy. Any successful change requires a translation of ambiguous goals into concrete behaviors.

Ambiguity is the enemy. Any successful change requires a translation of ambiguous goals into concrete behaviors. In short, to make a switch, you need to script the critical moves.

What tires out the Rider—and puts change efforts at risk—is ambiguity

Knowing yet not knowing is a strange sensation, like being split in two

It's hard to tell them apart, what we bring upon ourselves and what destiny determines. They're as difficult to disentangle as love and sorrow.

It added that I was no ordinary person but one with a complicated destiny. My great sacrifice, it indicated, would save the world. Or did it mean that I was the great sacrifice? The bow was often troublingly ambiguous. Once it told me I wasn't a woman at all. 'What am I, then?' 'A goddess, obviously.

Wait!' I cried, asking him the question that had bothered me for a long time. 'Did you ever love Ahalya? Were you sorry that you'd ruined her life?' Indra disappeared without answering, which didn't surprise me. The gods are slippery beings.

I worry that we all just sat around, after a while, trying to enjoy a ride that was never meant to be fun.

They felt that it was overwhelming evidence for something, that it proved something beyond any reasonable doubt, but they were not sure what.