Ambiguous Quote by James Surowiecki Download Open image “Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.” — James Surowiecki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambiguous Compelling Messy Politics Real Thrillers
In the world of fiction, politics usually appears considerably more exciting than it is. — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Good romantic suspense can never underestimate the audience, and the best political leaders know how to shape a compelling narrative that respects voters and… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
I think all movies are political. The ones that are not political intentionally are the worst, and have the worst politics, I think. — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience. — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
Politics are wack - it's mostly about the characters instead of the issues, like how religion is about religion instead of spirituality. — Santigold Copy Share Image
Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching. — Michael Heseltine Copy Share Image
It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle -… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV. — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
In movies that tackle these political issues, there are far more interesting themes to be explored than partisan politics, which is what we get… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium.… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually . — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“In general we are reminded that the word heimlich is not unambiguous, but belongs to two sets of ideas, which, without being contradictory, are… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and depending on… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
Photography appears to be an easy activity; in fact it is a varied and ambiguous process in which the only common denominator among its… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our mathematical descriptions… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't… — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image