Ambiguity Quote by Ben Brantley Download Open image “The eternal ambiguity of human motives and memory.” — Ben Brantley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambiguity Eternal Humans Memories Memory Motive
We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“In this way, reason represented by your knowledge, and experience represented by instinct -will start to conflict. Eventually, one will lose, and confusion sets… — Kinoko Nasu Copy Share Image
We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Differing perspectives, needs, and desires sometimes have a way of spawning completely different interpretations of the same events.” — Michael Makai Copy Share Image
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We perceive, we remember our experiences, we make judgments, we act - and in all of these endeavors, we are influenced by factors that… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness and passion. I usually do a fair amount of… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered only by… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to.… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
Whether you like it or not, a performance's triumphs and belly flops come to seem excruciatingly intimate, as if you were somehow partly responsible… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place.… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
The power of the print reviewer is one of those urban myths. There have always been shows that slipped under the critical radar to… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
THE HOT (AND SERIOUSLY COOL) ENERGY that comes from the musical gospel preached by the title character of FELA! feels as if it could… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the other parties, have signed up to… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive, and contain… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there. — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople. The concepts… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
