#ambiguity

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#ambiguity #else #look #might #something

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

#ambiguity #anyway #because #built #easy

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 ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl? ↗

— Anna Sui

#always #ambiguity #anna #bad #bad girl

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#life #stories #uncertainty #unpredictability #change

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#art #complexity #writing #art

It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament. ↗

— Jonathan Rosen

#faith #talmud #faith

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#virtue #love

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#assure #conscious #i #quite #refuge

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. ↗

— Scott Turow

#complexity #narrative #present #purpose #us

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous. ↗

— Keith Richards

#ambiguous #because #i #life #look