Fuzzy Quotes

• There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Ideas, Directors, Screenwriting

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• I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

  Don Henley

  Fun, Philosophy, Evil

  Song: The Garden of Allah

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• There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Art, Ignorance

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• The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Differences, Scholarship

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.324, Penguin

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• I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Optimistic, Thinking, Bad Ass

  "A Conversation about Communicating Science". "The Science Studio" with Roger Bingham, www.youtube.com. January 20, 2011.

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• From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

  Julian Baggini

  Islands, Borders, Wandering Around

  "Great minds don't think alike" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2008.

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• That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Stories, Lollipop, Ends

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• When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.

  Bette Midler

  Dream, Would Be, Notion

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• One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

  Anish Kapoor

  Spiritual, Space, Iconography

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• Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

  Joichi Ito

  Rights, Democracy, Liberty

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• There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

  Todd Gitlin

  Real, Believe, Attachment

  "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.

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• Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.

  Steve Pavlina

  Thinking, Acting, Easier

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• I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

  Frank Ocean

  Shells, Projects, Compassionate

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

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• Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.

  Martha Beck

  Passion, Thinking, People

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• But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.

  Deb Caletti

  Knowing, Feelings, Littles

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• The locker at the end of her bed had no lock, and one of the hinges was busted. She opened it up. There was a thing in it. The thing might have been a sandwich at some point, or an animal, or a human hand...but what it was now was fuzzy and putrid. A minute later, Ginny was down the stairs, out the door, and gone.

  Maureen Johnson

  Animal, Doors, Hands

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• People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

  Joss Whedon

  Believe, Simple, Thinking

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• If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get away from all the bad television that we tend to watch - and begin to take up serious meditation and other sacred exercises, we will have a real revolution of consciousness. If that happens, the world will change by itself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Who is the enemy? Who is holding back more rapid movement to the better society that is reasonable and possible with available resources?...Evil, stupidity, apathy, the 'system' are not the enemy...The real enemy is fuzzy thinking on the part of good, intelligent, vital people...In short, the enemy is strong natural servants who have the potential to lead but do not lead, or who choose to follow a non-servant.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Strong, Real, Intelligent

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• He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.

  Cassandra Clare

  Seductive, Fur, Phrases

  Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson (2013). “The Runaway Queen”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• She can tell you the height of the attacker from the trigonometry of the blood spatter, while I'm fuzzy on what trigonometry is.

  Ilona Andrews

  Blood, Height, Trigonometry

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.46, Penguin

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• Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy.

  John P. Kotter

  Tools, World, Assumption

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.23, Harvard Business Press

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• Whats happening in America today is parents are emphasizing their relationship with their children instead of leadership. Anyone in leadership will tell you you cannot have a warm, fuzzy relationship with someone youre in charge of leading.

  John Rosemond

  Children, America, Parent

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• When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take use all the way.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mean, Acceptance, Thinking

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of the unknown, all three tightly braided together, creating a fourth emotion that was impossible to define. She was getting a second chance at happiness and it tickled like swallowing fifty fuzzy caterpillars.

  Lisi Harrison

  Life, Second Chance, Creating

  Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.17, Hachette UK

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