Confusion Quotes - Page 31

• You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and noise, all the confusion of misplaced, misdirected energy just don't happen there.

  Harrison Ford

  Order, Land, Balance And Harmony

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• I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices in spite of themselves graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Friendship, Dog, Moving

  Song: You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance, Album: Inner City Front

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• As soon as one point alone is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion will not simply result in a new and better formulation which will have greater consistency but may easily lead to endless debates and general confusion.

  Adolf Hitler

  Media, May, Spheres

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• The general confusion is that our moral behavior is what justifies us before God. Most of us would never say that with our mouths but we feel that lie in our heart and believe it in our minds. You can be morally upright and not be a worshipper of Christ at all.

  Matt Chandler

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Source: www.christianitytoday.com

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• I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  College, White, Parent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rights, Chaos, Duty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.49, Rajpal & Sons

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• God's favorites, especially God's favorites, are not immune from the bewildering times when God seems silent. Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either. Faith demands uncertainty, confusion. The Bible includes many proofs of God's concern - some quite spectacular - but no guarantess. A guarantee would, after all, preclude faith.

  Paul Tournier

  Faith, Religious, Opportunity

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• As sculptors chip away the stone in order to find the statue, writers chip away extraneous verbiage so readers can see the shape of an idea clearly. My gift is to see through the confusion, to bring order and simplicity to a story.

  Leslie Parrish

  Order, Ideas, Simplicity

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.

  Yoko Ono

  Confused, People, Mind

  Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

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• I think I started writing as a young person because I felt a lot of psychic confusion and emotional confusion, and writing was a way to sort it out. You know, to externalize it, sort it out, put it down, look at it, and hopefully it would become clearer.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Writing, Emotional, Psychics

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

  Anne Rice

  Moving, Feelings, Church

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• What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because in 1938 he said that in a future war British cities would be attacked by bombing, and that the response would be that all men would want to join the fight because they would be so incensed by this cowardly manner of attack. Which is a very natural response: when something drops on you from the air and blows up a bunch of buildings and kills people in their sleep, the reaction is going to be rage, confusion, and a search for something to destroy in retaliation.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Sleep, Fighting

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long ago. We've lost true history. But if we are willing to tolerate the contradictions, and if we suffer through events rather than ticking them off, we may at least get closer to understanding what happened than if we grip the handrail of a carefully polished and reassuringly heroic narrative.

  Nicholson Baker

  Long Ago, Understanding, Suffering

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke" by James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

  Charlton Ogburn

  Teamwork, Progress And Change, Creating

  "Merrill’s Marauders" by Charlton Ogburn, harpers.org. January 1957.

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• Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Errors, Confusing

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• The question of relevance comes before that of truth, because to ask whether a statement is true or false presupposes that it is relevant (so that to try to assert the truth or falsity of an irrelevant statement is a form of confusion).

  David Bohm

  Truth, Science, Irrelevance

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.42, Routledge

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• The strengths a young person finds in adults at this time-their willingness to let him experiment, their eagerness to confirm him at his best, their consistency in correcting his excesses, and the guidance they give him-will codetermine whether or not he eventually makes order out of necessary inner confusion and applies himself to the correction of disordered conditions. He needs freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that he cannot, in fact, make a choice.

  Erik Erikson

  Teaching, Order, Giving

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• It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Mean, Men

  "New Method, Book I (Aphorism 43)". Book by Francis Bacon, 1620.

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• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  Olivia Williams

  Children, Choices, Debate

  "Olivia Williams: 'It can be unnerving working for Polanski'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2010.

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• The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

  Ellen Ullman

  Lying, Ignorance, Sea

  Ellen Ullman (2012). “Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents”, p.110, Macmillan

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• The most obvious and yet the oldest and most stubborn error on which the appeal of inflation rests is that of confusing ‘money’ with ‘wealth’…Real wealth, of course, consists in what is produced and consumed: the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the houses we live in. It is railways and roads and motor cars; ships and planes and factories; schools and churches and theaters; pianos, paintings and books. Yet so powerful is the verbal ambiguity that confuses money with wealth, that even those who at times recognize the confusion will slide back into it in the course of their reasoning.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Powerful, Real, Book

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• Whenever I take a position, I like to imagine what it would be like under the worst-case scenario. In doing so, I minimize the confusion if that situation actually develops. In my view, losses are a very important part of trading. When a loss happens, I believe in embracing it.

  Gil Blake

  Believe, Loss, Views

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• The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Suffering, Truth Is, Graves

  "Where Is God in Our Suffering? Tullian Tchividjian's 'Glorious Ruin' Offers New Perspective". Interview with Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. October 30, 2012.

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• The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.

  Anna Ford

  Jobs, Children, Sacrifice

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• Instant success are seldom instant and if you talk to the people behind these successes, you'll find out that they came after months of fear, uncertainty and confusion along with a flagrant lack of adoption.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, Adoption, Months

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