Ambiguity Quotes

199 quotes by 168 authors

To put it simply, we need to keep the arts in education because they instill in students the habits of mind that last a lifetime:… — Rod Paige
Noise is the typographical error and the poorly designed page...Ambiguity is noise. Redundancy is noise. Misuse of words is noise. Vagueness is noise. Jargon is… — William Zinsser
Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps' — Steven Furtick
Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the neat little… — Violet Trefusis
Fail your way forward. Recognize that Ready, fire, aim is superior to ready, aim, aim, aim. Straightforward trial and error produces better results than endless… — Steve Pavlina
I am in the utmost perplexity, yand have wished a hundred times, that if there is a A God, nature would manifest him without ambiguity,… — Blaise Pascal
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. — Terence McKenna
Ambiguity â€” the Devil's volleyball. — Emo Philips
There are some who question the relevance of space activities in a developing nation. To us, there is no ambiguity of purpose. We do not… — Vikram Sarabhai
Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of… — Elif Safak
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find sects… — Thomas Reid
We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I… — Amy Tan
Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This… — David Brooks
I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this… — Anna Sui
There is no reason to believe that in the face of statutory ambiguity, the meaning of federal law should be settled by the inclinations and… — Cass Sunstein
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be. — Roger von Oech
A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does not recede, a… — Jo Baer
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever… — Simone de Beauvoir
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue a… — Deepak Chopra
Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with… — Ai Weiwei

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