Robert Sapolsky

I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important. Better a stable world that's familiar, in which I'm doing pretty poorly, than dealing with all the ambiguity of a changing world.

American Scientist

Chadwick Boseman

I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think very often, African-American characters are either one thing or the other. You shouldn't have to be perfectly good or perfectly bad. You don't even have to be magical.

American Actor

Gilda Radner

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

American Comedian

John M. Ford

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.

American Writer

Julian Baggini

Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.

British Author

Laura Dern

Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.

American Actress

Nancy Kress

The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

Jason Beghe

I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity.

Paul G. Tremblay

Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in.

American Author

Keith Richards

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

English Musician

Ambiguity often requires context or additional information to determine the intended meaning.

Interpretation Variation

Writers sometimes use ambiguity to engage readers, making them think or imagine possibilities.

Purposeful Uncertainty

Ambiguity in directions or guidelines can lead to confusion and misapplication.

Unclear Instructions

If instructions or statements seem ambiguous, don't hesitate to ask for clearer details.

Clarification Request

In storytelling, ambiguity is often intentional to create mystery or provoke thought.

Embracing Mystery

Ambiguity can arise from cultural references that are not universally understood.

Cultural Context

In law, ambiguity can lead to misunderstandings and disputes over contract interpretations.

Legal Disputes

Understanding legal context helps in using proper terms to avoid ambiguity in legal documents.

Seeking Precision

 these outcomes don't only depend on the quality of our decision-making, but also the roll of life's dice. For example, we can be perfectly health-conscious and still get unlucky with something like cancer. Or we can smoke 20 a day and live to a ripe old age, and this kind of ambiguity can make it hard for us to know

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 and I have my troublemaker put to use because they, on the surface, are trying to save the world and their position in the game. But they're also trying to undermine everything in the game. And they do it secretly through misinformation and ambiguities and irrelevancies,

John Hunter: Teaching...

 such as living without physical or mental attachments, avoiding binary thinking, and realizing one’s true “Buddha-nature." But by framing those lessons as illogical anecdotes, they became tests to help practicing monks learn to live with ambiguity and paradox.

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 increasing their fascination with his surreal worlds and enigmatic characters. The lack of any clear meaning makes Godot endlessly open to interpretation. Critics have offered countless readings of the play, resulting in a cycle of ambiguity and speculation

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 that add information about other parts of a sentence, which is usually helpful. But when modifiers aren't linked clearly enough to the words they're actually referring to, they can create unintentional ambiguity. That happens because the modifying words,

How misused modifiers...

 huh wow I can think about this now and I can apply this idea to my life and perhaps walk you know go through life being a little less rigid about what is real and what is it and kind of embrace this ambiguity

Jason Silva on...

 And you don't know what is operating, but something is operating there. And ambiguity, to me, is very uncomfortable in my life, and I have it. Moral ambiguity. It is constantly there. And, just as an example,

Where does creativity...

 desire to feel important. And the very structure of an affair, the fact that you can never have your lover, keeps you wanting. That in itself is a desire machine, because the incompleteness, the ambiguity,

Rethinking infidelity...

 but life itself is fluid. They want to divide us into tribes, but we are connected across borders. They preach certainty, but we know that life has plenty of magic and plenty of ambiguity.

The revolutionary power...

 And in this respect, it's become, like I said, a real blessing for me personally and for my company, because we communicate at a far deeper level, we avoid ambiguities,