Confusing Quotes - Page 10

• The tantras can be very confusing for a person who is new to Buddhism, and for several thousand years the rule was not to expose a person or a new monk to the tantras until they had practiced for many, many years.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Years

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• Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.

  Ellen Willis

  Real, Moving, Loss

  "How Now, Iron Johns?". "The Nation", December 13, 1999.

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• The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one.

  Ronda Rousey

  Illegal, Slap

  "Ronda Rousey: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2012.

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• I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.

  Stewart Lee

  Creative, Thrill, Way

  Stewart Lee (2010). “How I Escaped My Certain Fate”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Artist, Two

  "Comfort reading: Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2003.

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• Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Special, Causes, Common

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• As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.

  Alvin Lustig

  Mistake, Learning, Acceptance

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• Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Law, Justice, Way

  "The Windup Girl". Book by Paolo Bacigalupi, September 1, 2009.

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• It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from our minds. We were supposed to get over ourselves but no one was supposed to get over us. The female body was our worst handicap and our best advantage - the surest means to success, the surest course to failure.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Girl, Women, Mean

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• Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists.

  David Finkelstein

  People, Different, Dialect

  "Physics and Whitehead: quantum, process, and experience". Book editing by Timothy E. Eastman and Hank Keeton, 2012.

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• He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.

  B. B. Warfield

  May, Ends, Seeking God

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• Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be electrocuted, apparently. Bloody confusing, is what it is.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Girl, Talking, Romance

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• Sometimes we get frustrated ourselves and decide it's time to download a big chunk of mythology. And then the audience says, 'I find this confusing and alienating and too weird.' So then we pull back, and they say, 'You're not giving us enough'.

  Damon Lindelof

  Giving, Frustrated, Sometimes

  "Murtzcellanious: Murtz Jaffer Talks To Lost Co-Creator Damon Lindelof". Interview with Murtz Jaffer, insidepulse.com. November 12, 2005.

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• People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.

  Zach Braff

  Mother, People, Sometimes

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• Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.

  Dean Hamer

  Marriage Equality, Ancient, Dear

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• "It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don't want any to-day, at any rate." "You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said. "The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam to-day." "It must come sometimes to "jam to-day,""Alice objected. "No it can't," said the Queen. "It's jam every other day; to-day isn't any other day, you know." "I don't understand you," said Alice. "It's dreadfully confusing."

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Math, Yesterday

  Lewis Carroll “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, Lulu.com

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• The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.

  Andre Breton

  Expectations, Confusion, Challenges

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• Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.

  Priscilla Presley

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• How confusing the beams from memory's lamp are; One day a bachelor, the next a grampa. What is the secret of the trick? How did I get so old so quick?

  Ogden Nash

  Memories, Secret, One Day

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• Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

  Lee Bolman

  Excellence, Nails, Hammers

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• I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it and I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.

  Adele

  People, Insecurity, Overcoming

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• As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things.

  Sean Plott

  Nice, May, Be Kind

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2013

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• Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology. There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.

  Alan Cooper

  Fun, Powerful, Technology

  Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing

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• All we really want is love's confusing joy.

  Rumi

  Joy, Want

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “If You Want What Visible Reality”

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• Sometimes in a relationship, we can be so caught up in our feelings for the other person that we squeeze God into the background. It becomes a confusing, emotional mess and we wonder why God isn't giving us more direction, when all the while He is there waiting to be allowed back into first place in our hearts. Only when He is truly in first place are we ready for a God-written love story.

  Leslie Ludy

  Heart, Emotional, Giving

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