Quotes About Ambiguity

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all...

All of man's troubles have arisen from the fact that we do not know what we are and do not agree on what we want to be.

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.

How come no one ever warned you that life would be fraught with mixed messages? That success, for example, is just another word for a lot more work? That what's called freedom is only the right to do what's allowed? And you'd derive a lot more pride from your friend's achievements than from your own?

So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms. "I'm not fallen," he said roughly. "Then what are you?" He shrugged. "Busted.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

I always hear myself saying , 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.

Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix; in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different.

Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.

Even my agents say, 'We don't know what this business is anymore.'

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

Rather than living a life of resistance and trying to disprove our basic situation of impermanence and change, we could contact the fundamental ambiguity and welcome it. We don't like to think of ourselves as fixed and unchanging, but emotionally we're very invested in it. We simply don't want the frightening, uneasy discomfort of feeling groundless.