Quotes About Ambiguity

Sometimes our questions are better left unanswered.

No, this is no beginning. Then an end? End is a gloomy word.

The key to such power is ambiguity. In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both masculine and feminine, impudent and charming, subtle and outrageous. Let other people worry about being socially acceptable; those types are a dime a dozen, and you are after a power greater than they can imagine.

Hide your intentions not by closing up (with the risk of appearing secretive, and making people suspicious) but by talking endlessly about your desires and goals-just not the real ones.

little about your work, tease and titillate with alluring, even contradictory comments, then stand back and let others try to make sense of it all.

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

If you are trying to mislead your enemies, it is often better to concoct something ambiguous and hard to read, as opposed to an outright deception—that deception can be uncovered and enemies can turn their discovery to their advantage, especially if you think they are still fooled and act under that belief.

cultivate profound dissatisfaction with your work and the need to constantly improve your ideas, along with a sense of uncertainty—you are not exactly sure where to go next, and this uncertainty drives the creative urge and keeps it fresh.

Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.

There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worst of all, no way out.

I probably misunderstand misunderstanding itself

But when didn't a lifetime feel unfinished?

Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know. If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say. Does anybody's? After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.

She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away. "Nothing like life, in other words," he said. "There, it's questions with either no answers or messy ones.

She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answer may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away

You changed the subject. From what? The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy. You know. Know what? That I only have eyes for you. Laila swooned inside. She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half desperate look in his eyes. A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity

I rescued him from the certainty of a turmoil and put him in a turmoil of uncertainty.

The truth was no. The lie was yes. I settled for something in between. I don't know.

Rekla je da je istina u nepromjenjivosti matemati?kih istina, nedostatku proizvoljnosti i odsustvu dvosmislenost. U saznanju da odgovori mogu biti neuhvatljivi, ali ih je mogu?e prona?i. Bili su tamo, ?ekaju?i da budu ispisani na tabli. Nimalo nalik životu, drugim rije?ima, kazao je.

tuve la sensación de que estaba viendo dos caras al mismo tiempo, la que conocía, la que era mi primer recuerdo, y otra, una segunda que estaba escondida bajo la superficie

She said There was comfort to be found in mathematical truths, the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. nothing like life, in other words , he said

Nothing like life, it questions with either no answers or messy ones.

She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away.

It is that too." She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away. "Nothing like life, in other words," he said. "There, it's questions with either no answers or messy ones.