Quotes about confusion
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I skied the way I hoped would reflect a positive objective. There's a discrepancy there. There's a moment of confusion and disappointment, but my objective criteria was satisfied. Bode Miller
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I understand they're frustrated with the confusion over the days. However, the worst thing that happened is they got an extra day of school.
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We simply want to put to rest the misinformation, the confusion that has been raised.
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People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion. Richard Avedon
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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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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. Robert Frost
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A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold. Richard E. Byrd
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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection. Robert Kennedy
confusion people retreat
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
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... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age. Saul Bellow
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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
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Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion. Tony Snow
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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. Vivienne Westwood
confusion effort poetry
You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins Nor stand there making orotund consolations. He shares the confusions of intelligence. Wallace Stevens
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it. Salvador Dali
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. W. H. Auden
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O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion. William Congreve
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The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of sulphates, sulphites, and sulphures, may have served no end than to have retarded the progress of science by a jargon, from the confusion of which time will be requisite to extricate us. Thomas Jefferson
confusion causes results
Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it. Jeff Hawkins
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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. James Agee
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I am confident that we can do better than GUIs because the basic problem with them (and with the Linux and Unix interfaces) is that they ask a human being to do things that we know experimentally humans cannot do well. The question I asked myself is, given everything we know about how the human mind works, could we design a computer and computer software so that we can work with the least confusion and greatest efficiency? Jef Raskin
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Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God. Giulio Andreotti
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There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere. Hannah Arendt
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Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.
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There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance. Gottfried Leibniz
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Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed. Franz Kafka
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Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion... Eric Clapton
confusion people too-much
History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. Gary Ross
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I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that. Garry Winogrand
confusion enemy
Here's to the confusion of our enemies! Frank Sinatra
confusion world
There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours. Euripides
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The noise and customer confusion following all the acquisitions is quieting down.
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Brace yourself as a wave of earnings estimate revisions and lots of confusion may be headed your way. (In) the near term, the impact may be painful.