Ambiguity Quotes
The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity. John Wayne
Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.
I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity.
From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
When I am willing to step into the realm of uncertainty and ambiguity, I open myself up to infinite possibilities.
Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.
To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.
I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.
What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.
Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.
Audacity isn't the absence of uncertainty and ambiguity. Audacity is believing that God's promise is bigger than my 'perhaps'
I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.
The faster you can sample sound when you are digitizing it, the higher the frequency, the less phase ambiguity at the higher frequencies.
To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.
Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?
The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.
Where unclarity resides, there is temptation, and there it proves only too easily the stronger. Wherever there is ambiguity, wherever there is wavering, there is disobedience down at the bottom.
It would be gross understatement to say that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is not a model of clarity. It is in many important respects a model of ambiguity or indeed even self-contradiction.
Reagan's genius as a communicator lies in his use of ambiguity. ... Ambiguity is the mother of Teflon.
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead.
The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination.
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
