Confusion Quotes - Page 40

• Deal with it before it happens. Set things in order before there is confusion.

  Laozi

  Order, Confusing, Tao

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Smile, smile , smile
  At your mind
  As often as possible.
  Your smiling will considerably reduce
  Your mind's tearing tension.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Confusing, Mind, Tension

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• In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Art, Self

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

  Alexander Pope

  Confused, Order, Water

  'Windsor Forest' (1711) l. 11

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• Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Confused, Confusing, Battle

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• When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Nature, Confusing

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• If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of reason, virtue, and religion, the multitude; that numerous piece of monstrosity, which, taken asunder, seem men, and the reasonable creatures of God, but, confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious than Hydra.

  Thomas Browne

  Confused, Taken, Men

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 1

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• The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

  Saul Alinsky

  Fear, People, Experience

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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• Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.

  Robert Frost

  Water, Confusing, Drink

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

  Richard Marcinko

  Change, Hurt, Confused

  Richard Marcinko (1997). “Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando's Guide to Success”

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• I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be, dead, and I'm glad that he is. Insecure, frightened, confused, much like a lot of people I know today.

  Peter Steele

  Confused, Insecure, People

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• Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. . . . . Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

  Max Ehrmann

  Life, Beautiful, Dream

  "Desiderata" (1927).

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• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Character, Healing

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1388, Delphi Classics

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• A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Beauty, Beautiful, Years

  Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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• Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong,
  The women have leaped from their spheres,
  And, instead of fixed stars, shoot as comets along,
  And are setting the world by the ears!

  Maria Weston Chapman

  Stars, Women, Ears

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• Almost six years ago, before I was given the incredible opportunity to be in 'Leaving Las Vegas,' I was going through a long period of artistic confusion. I'd spent years doing work that hadn't pushed me enough, and I was beginning to wonder if I had any talent.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Opportunity, Vegas, Years

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• I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

  Howard Gardner

  Confused, Book, Emotional

  "Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner, Part I". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.

  Joy Behar

  Stress, Creative, Chaos

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• Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.

  John Nelson Darby

  Mean, Blessing, Church

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• It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Real, English History, Patterns

  "Peter Ackroyd: 'I just want to tell a story'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2011.

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• Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.

  Janet Jackson

  Kids, Reality, Add

  Song: Livin' In A World, Album: Rhythm Nation 1814

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• Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.

  Ray Davies

  Lying, Self, Evil

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• The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

  Van Morrison

  Art, Fog, Media

  Song: Aryan Mist, Album: Beautiful Vision

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• Man as seen as an organism or man as seen as a person discloses different aspects of the human reality to the investigator. Both are quite possible methodologically but one must be alert to the possible occasion for confusion. (...) Seen as an organism, man cannot be anything else but a complex of things, of its, and the processes that ultimately comprise an organism are it-processes.

  R. D. Laing

  Reality, Men, Different

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• They all laughed. I drew their pictures and they asked for copies and I handed them out as if they were my tickets to the show. In the Navy Yard, I could drink with men because I worked with men; in the Parkview, I could drink with men because I drew their pictures. The world was a grand confusion. Finally, when I was bleary, when my hand wouldn't do what I wanted it to do, I went home. I would lie alone in the dark, feeling that I was a character in a story that had lost its plot.

  Pete Hamill

  Lying, Character, Home

  Pete Hamill (1994). “A Drinking Life: A Memoir”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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