Unclear Quotes

• When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings.

  Ani DiFranco

  Life, Joy, Knows

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• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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• Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

  George W. Bush

  Inspirational, Funny, Political

  Attributed to George W. Bush in Associated Press interview in Los Angeles Times, October 30, 1988.

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• When the next step is unclear, the best way to figure it out is to take action. Constant motion is the key to execution.

  Scott Belsky

  Keys, Next Steps, Way

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• In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Knowledge, Knowing, Doubt

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• The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure.

  Scott Stapp

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Two

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• Usually when Obama says, 'Let me be clear,' he's about to get into some very unclear sh*t.

  Jon Stewart

  Let Me, Clear

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• A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Death, Warrior, Thinking

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• I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant.

  Janet Burroway

  Dull, Judgment, Insignificant

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• Leaders can be wrong - but they can not be unclear.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Motivational, Leadership, Vision

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• The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments accurately even when it is unclear what those developments are. I start with the opposite view. I believe the market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

  George Soros

  Believe, Views, Opposites

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart

  Viktor Schauberger

  Wisdom, Nature, Believe

  Viktor Schauberger “Living Energies”, Рипол Классик

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• As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.

  Alan Cranston

  War, Enemy, Population

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• Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization that sometimes overwhelms our institutions. These institutions were designed for rural societies operation at a tiny fraction of today's speed and with a citizenry vastly less capable that today's. It's unclear how they will change to adapt to the new reality, but change they must.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Technology, Opportunity, Reality

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• Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had never done a TV show before, so week to week it was unclear what we would be asked to do.

  Nick Stahl

  Character, Play, Tv Shows

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• Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Mother, Children, Struggle

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter II, 1835.

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• In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Blessing, Appreciate, Tragedy

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• But the need for conflict to expose prejudice and unclear reasoning, which is deeply embedded in my philosophy of science, has its origin in these debates.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Philosophy, Prejudice, Needs

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• When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?

  Sengcan

  Practice, Judging, Benefits

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• I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation... and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose, which is a tendency that I have, to be concise. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

  Dan Quayle

  Thinking, Discipline, Trying

  Los Angeles Times (attributed to an earlier Associated Press interview), October 30, 1988.

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• I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

  Seth Godin

  Responsibility, Rocks, Organization

  "Is it time for a competitor to the Olympics?". sethgodin.typepad.com. February 19, 2014.

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• A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.

  Richard Mitchell

  Running, Heart, Meditation

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• When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple. Most people, though, are unclear about what's most important in their lives, and thus decision making becomes a form of internal torture.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Simple, People

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.400, Simon and Schuster

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• By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

  George Tenet

  Enemy, United States, Definitions

  Remarks at Georgetown University, 5 February 2004.

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• The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.

  Francis Crick

  Minorities, May, Acid

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