#ambiguity

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

— Roger von Oech

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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

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#budget #rises #your

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

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#pleasure

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity. ↗

— Vernon A. Walters

#constructive #doctrine #i #participant

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

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#calculated #clearly #message #russians #sent

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

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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