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Image of Mona Eltahawy
I'm here to confuse you. Confusion is my right and left hook.
- Mona Eltahawy
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Image of Casey Spooner
If something was confusing or difficult, then it was a positive thing. Confusion is a positive.
- Casey Spooner
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Image of Kenneth E. Iverson
The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation.
- Kenneth E. Iverson
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Image of William Dean Howells
See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
- William Dean Howells
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Image of Nils Frahm
Confusion is the only state of mind we have where we are really out of our patterns and what we expect. Because of that, you're open to new experiences. The irritation in concert performances is really important. When people get really irritated, they listen on the front of their stool and ask, "What's going on?" If I deliver what they expect - sad, soft piano music - then people would just shut down.
- Nils Frahm
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Image of Hetty King
The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion.
- Hetty King
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Image of Allison Winn Scotch
You have to know... What you have to know in all of this, through all of this, is that no matter how lost you are in this maze of hell and confusion, that in the end, I promise you, you will be found.
- Allison Winn Scotch
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Image of Maggie Kuhn
Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
- Maggie Kuhn
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Image of Edgar Ramirez
Never underestimate a populist. We have come to a moment where language is very important. Saying the media is the number one enemy of society is a way to create confusion and set people against each other. It's like a virus. Democracy dies and is born every day. If you don't take an active role in what is going on, somebody can easily steal it from you.
- Edgar Ramirez
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Image of Maxwell Maltz
Another cause of confusion, and the resulting feelings of nervousness, hurry, and anxiety, is the absurd habit of trying to do many things at one time.
- Maxwell Maltz
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Image of Rajmani Tigunait
The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger.
- Rajmani Tigunait
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Image of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
It's hard to pin down what the politics would be, in a way. For me the politics are very visual and felt, thought, seen, but not necessarily put into words. The confusions and conditions within the work are the politics. The fact that a lot of the time the first thing people want to talk to me about is the racial angle, which is a part of the work and I am happy to talk about it, but it's not necessarily the first thing on my mind when I am making something.
- Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
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Image of T. K. V. Desikachar
The recognition of confusion is itself a form of clarity.
- T. K. V. Desikachar
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Image of Laurie Sheck
Disability strips away complacency. Affliction is brutal, but it can also push vital questions to the fore. The afflicted body becomes a site of otherness, confusion, isolation, watchfulness, longing. One becomes keenly aware of the impersonality of brute matter, but at the same time there is often a raw, mistrustful desire for gentleness, connection.
- Laurie Sheck
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Image of Saul Bellow
... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.
- Saul Bellow
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Image of Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news
- Marilyn vos Savant
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Image of Arthur Schopenhauer
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Image of Maria Montessori
To teach details is to bring confusion; to establish the relationship between things is to bring knowledge.
- Maria Montessori
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Image of Edward de Bono
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.
- Edward de Bono
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Image of Donald A. Norman
Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.
- Donald A. Norman
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Image of Bertolt Brecht
Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
- Bertolt Brecht
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Image of Frank Sinatra
Here's to the confusion of our enemies!
- Frank Sinatra
Collection: Confusion
Image of Norbert Wiener
Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the discouragement of potential criminals, we shall get none of these, but only a confusion in which crime breeds more crime.
- Norbert Wiener
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Image of Barbara Tuchman
Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.
- Barbara Tuchman
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Image of Rebecca West
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
- Rebecca West
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Image of Ellen G. White
The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days.
- Ellen G. White
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Image of Leonardo da Vinci
He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Image of George Washington
Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.
- George Washington
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Image of Tariq Ramadan
Political confusion starts with terminology confusion.
- Tariq Ramadan
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Image of Blaise Pascal
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
- Blaise Pascal
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Image of William Shakespeare
So quick bright things come to confusion.​​​​​​
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Scott Westerfeld
Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "Make me pretty.
- Scott Westerfeld
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Image of Stuart Wilde
Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy.
- Stuart Wilde
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Image of John Milton
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
- John Milton
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Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Image of M. Scott Peck
We cannot solve a problem by saying, "It's not my problem." We cannot solve a problem by hoping that someone else will solve it for us. I can solve a problem only when I say, "This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it."
- M. Scott Peck
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Image of John Steinbeck
Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.
- John Steinbeck
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Image of Blaise Pascal
The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion.
- Blaise Pascal
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Image of Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Image of Maria V. Snyder
I took three steps and was wrapped in his arms, where I belonged. No confusion here. No worries here. No troubles here.
- Maria V. Snyder
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Image of Barack Obama
There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."
- Barack Obama
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Image of Philip Sidney
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
- Philip Sidney
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Image of J. Robert Oppenheimer
To the confusion of our enemies.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Image of Blaise Pascal
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
- Blaise Pascal
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Image of Emile Zola
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.
- Emile Zola
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Image of Theodore Roosevelt
At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Image of Ajahn Chah
The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.
- Ajahn Chah
Collection: Confusion