Confusing Quotes

• Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

  Jack Welch

  Life, Change, Strength

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• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, True Friend, Grief

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.

  Aristotle

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2368, Delphi Classics

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• Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

  Erma Bombeck

  Success, Determination, Greatness

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• It's like deja-vu, all over again.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Yankees

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Confusion, Suitcases

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

  Michael Stipe

  Confused, Reality, Thinking

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• Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

  Henry Miller

  Order, Confusion, Understanding

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

  Rachel Blanchard

  Brother, Children, Nice

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

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• I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

  Doc Watson

  Thinking, Guitar, Play

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• Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Confused, Humorous, Profound

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• It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspirational, Time, Pain

  1971 Talk delivered to Forum on'TheWomanWriter in the Twentieth Century'. Collected as'WhenWe Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision', in College English, Oct1972.

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• I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

  Bill Gates

  Confused, Mean, Giving

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• The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral.

  David Letterman

  Funeral, Alive, Today

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• Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.

  Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking

  Mistake, Believe, People

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• I knew there was something I had to do yesterday. I couldn't remember what it is. I can't figure it out. I know it's a holiday. I know I don't have a meeting. It's very confusing.

  Jennifer Beals

  Holiday, Yesterday, Remember

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• Where I fit in is confusing to me.

  Sheryl Crow

  Fit

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• An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

  Tom Coburn

  Sunshine, Practice, Government

  "Tracking Federal Hurricane Aid Poses a Challenge" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2005.

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• Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

  Marty Meehan

  Senior, Drug, Lobbyists

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• I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.

  Caroline Corr

  Country, Mean, Different

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

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• I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

  George Crumb

  Diversity, Style, Today

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• I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

  Marc Almond

  Past, Thinking, Europe

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• Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

  Johan Huizinga

  Depression, Beautiful, Age

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• I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Funny Inspirational

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