Quotes and Sayings about Ambiguity
"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
(Related: Ambiguity)
"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
(Related: War, Ambiguity)
"Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation."
- John M. Ford
(Related: Ambiguity, Events)
"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."
- Sigmund Freud
(Related: Ambiguity, Neurosis)
"The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood."
- Alexander Haig
(Related: Ambiguity)
"The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here."
- David Kay
(Related: Truth, Positive, Ambiguity, Destruction, Result, Will)
"People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time."
- Don McLean
(Related: Society, Time, People, Ambiguity, Open, State)
"Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity."
- Graham Nelson
(Related: Ambiguity, Being, Resolution, Sensitivity, Writing)
"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."
- Kenzaburo Oe
(Related: Ambiguity, Country, Observation, Present, Years)
"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."
- Roger von Oech
(Related: Ambiguity, World)
"The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what hap- pens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived."
- Gilda Radner
(Related: Life, Goal, Ambiguity, Cancer, Will)
"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way."
- Stephen Rea
(Related: Ambiguity, Irish, Writing)
"These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable."
- Godfrey Reggio
(Related: Work, Advertising, Ambiguity, Film, Meaning, Propaganda)
"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words."
- Thomas Reid
(Related: Knowledge, Ambiguity, Words)
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous."
- Keith Richards
(Related: Life, Ambiguity, Writing)
"You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living. What are they really doing here. And it is just interesting because it is never black or white."
- Matt Robinson
(Related: People, Ambiguity, Living, Morals)
"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Age, Ambiguity, Right, Woman, World)
"On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity."
- Adam Smith
(Related: Ambiguity, Road, Skepticism)
"The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity."
- Scott Turow
(Related: Purpose, Ambiguity, Complexity, Present)
"Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with."
- Skeet Ulrich
(Related: Ambiguity)
"I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity."
- Vernon A. Walters
(Related: Ambiguity, Doctrine)
"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."
- Gene Wolfe
(Related: Ambiguity, Doubt, Richness)