Confusion Quotes - Page 27

• To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Teenager, Land, Joy

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• Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and confusion of face. Never by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste--never, above all, by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer--crush what is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature.

  Charles Kingsley

  Crush, Children, Selfish

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When confronted by conflict and confusion, another practice is to take a deep breath, pause and ask: 'Where is the gift in this?

  Diane Dreher

  Practice, Conflict, Take A Deep Breath

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• You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings so deep that you haven't admitted them even to yourself. Your convictions, your confusions, your most passionate dreams will be there whenever you begin a story, so you might as well learn to tap into them.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Dream, Stories, Passionate

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• dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary in which the overdriven mind and nerves may take refuge, a country on the outer edge of this confusion, bright with the shadow of eternity beyond.

  Maude Meagher

  Country, Dream, Mind

  Maude Meagher (1931). “Fantastic Traveller”

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• the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Color, Racism, Denial

  Patricia J. Williams (2016). “Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

  Matthew Underwood

  Passion, Romance, Family And Friends

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My records are fairly quiet and my dj sets are really loud. And then the live shows are like a robot soul revue. So i understand people's confusion.

  Moby

  People, Soul, Robots

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 5, 2014.

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• I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is...it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Law, Mp3

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• Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to come upon mignonnette in unexpected places, and to find sprays of heliotrope in close consultation with your roses, and geraniums sporting their uniforms like gay recruits off duty.

  Anna Bartlett Warner

  Flower, Gay, Garden

  Anna Bartlett Warner (1872). “Gardening by Myself”, p.64

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• Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

  Horace

  Light, Obscure, Clear

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• I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.

  David Lynch

  Doors, Darkness, Safe

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• I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition. I think a lot of things in life are understood that way. But you internalize these things; they don't really pop out. Certain things are built inside - little areas of understanding. I feel that I live in darkness and confusion, and I'm trying, like we all are, to make some sort of sense of it.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Things In Life, Ideas

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• People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.

  Sidney Coleman

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Quantum Mechanics in Your Face". Lecture at the New England sectional meeting of the American Physical Society, April 9, 1994.

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• An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

  Joni Mitchell

  Artist, Needs, Turmoil

  Malka Marom, Joni Mitchell (2014). “Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now”, p.153, Omnibus Press

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• When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Order, Retreat, Survivor

  Rita Mae Brown (2017). “Six of One”, p.100, Bantam

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• Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold and treasure it.

  Paul Hindemith

  Meaningful, Tasks, Treasure

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• Confusion is not an ignoble condition

  Brian Friel

  Ignoble, Conditions

  Brian Friel (2013). “Brian Friel Plays 1: Philadelphia, Here I Come!; The Freedom of the City; Living Quarters; Aristocrats; Faith Healer; Translations”, p.393, Faber & Faber

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• But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Practice, Needs, Chaos

  Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2013). “The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World”, p.203, Harvard Business Press

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• I want characters to have voices that feel authentic, unique, honest, fresh and original - all at once. Part of that authenticity is evoking genuine emotion across life - the sadness, passion, love, sense of loss, missed opportunities, and confusion even. All of this helps us realize that our choices do impact the lives that we eventually lead.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, Sadness, Passion

  "Book Talk - Nicholas Sparks on Telling Stories Through Text, Film". www.reuters.com. October 10, 2013.

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• The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence, and the other is disorder or chaos. The popular conception of anarchism is on the one hand bomb-throwing and terrorism, and on the other hand no rules, no regulations, no discipline, everybody does what they want, confusion, etc. That is why there is a reluctance to use the term anarchism.

  Howard Zinn

  Real, Hands, Two

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

  Walter Mosley

  Father, Mistake, America

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.12, Black Classic Press

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• In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers, which also seem inadequate distinctions.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Numbers, Identity

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories”, p.128, Courier Corporation

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• The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.

  Ellen Willis

  Spiritual, Couple, Emotional

  Ellen Willis (2012). “Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

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• There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

  Lisa Randall

  Spiritual, Real, Mean

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