Jesmyn Ward

I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline. I have a vague idea of the characters at the beginning of the book, and then I have a vague idea of whatever the end of the book will be, but I can't approach creative nonfiction like that.

American Novelist

Karen Robards

I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.

American Author

Philip Rivers

I remember asking my mom, 'Can you be the quarterback and the drum major at halftime?' I mean it's like, what in the world? I wanted to go play quarterback, and I wanted to lead the band. I don't know how old I was but I vaguely remember asking them that.

American Athlete

Kumail Nanjiani

You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. It's specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

Pakistani Comedian

Ruth Wilson

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

English Actress

Ernest Istook

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

American Politician

Shawn Levy

To connect with the characters, you need to connect with the world. If the world feels vaguely familiar, I believe the characters will feel relatable.

Canadian Director

Josh Schwartz

The characters are that vague TV high school age, but they'll be in high school as long as we need them to be.

American Producer

John C. Crosby

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

English Designer

Use 'vague' to show you're intentionally leaving out details, not because you don't know them.

Avoid in Details

Indicate your own or others' uncertainty or indecision using 'vague'.

Express Uncertainty

Convey that someone might be deliberately obscuring information with 'vague'.

Conceal Information

Suggest emotional distance or a lack of engagement with 'vague'.

Emotionally Distant

Use 'vague' when someone wants to avoid making a clear commitment.

Noncommittal Response

Describe thoughts or ideas that are not fully formed or developed yet.

Not Fully Formed

Use 'vague' to describe uncertain or fuzzy visual representations.

Unclear Imagery

Highlight the lack of definition in a description or introduction.

Indefinite Description

Mention the abstract or general nature of something, not tied to specifics.

Abstract Representation

 that miracle right there were just another duck in a row we're not the only kids on the block and I think that that's philosophically a very profound thing to learn we're not a miracle okay the third thing that it might tell you is somewhat vague but I think interesting and important and that is if you find a signal coming from a more

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 "All the great thinkers of humanity have left happiness in the vague so that each of them could define their own terms." Well, that would be fine if it was just a secondary preoccupation in life. But now, if it is something that is going to determine the quality of every instant of our life,

The habits of happiness...

 or the effortless poise of a prima ballerina. When used in every day life, the word symmetry represents vague notions of beauty, harmony and balance. In math and science, symmetry has a different, and very specific, meaning. In this technical sense, a symmetry is the property of an object.

The science of symmetry...

 "Eh, they're probably bluffing." That's just going to lose you a bunch of money, because poker is a game of probabilities and precision, and so you have to train yourself to think in numbers. So now, whenever I catch myself thinking vaguely about something really important, like,

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 philosophy is to expand the scope and scale of consciousness that we may better understand the nature of the universe elon one of the things that was most touching last week was uh was seeing you hang out with your kids um here's if i may it looks vaguely like a ventriloquist

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 that's purposely vague natural flavors those are things which have come from nature from many different sources of plants vegetables or things like that that's actually the most closely guarded trade secret in the world so we don't actually say what they are coke ships

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 may be denied access because of the vague fears and prejudices of those who have enough to eat. We have a huge challenge in front of us. Let's celebrate scientific innovation and use it. It's our responsibility

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 your life it does prevent you from fully living it one cure for terminal vagueness is trunking track your numbers track your time boy tracked my money I had my bills on a huge color-coded wall chart but when it

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 not as a memory or vague shape, but in complete lifelike detail. They can flex their phantom fingers and sometimes even feel the chafe of a watchband or the throb of an ingrown toenail.

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 and literally hundreds of indicators. Also, while some of the goals are pretty specific -- end hunger -- others are a lot vaguer -- promote peaceful and tolerant societies.

Vague