36 Best Quotes on Ambiguity from Ambiguity is the Answer by Kyle Crawford
“Ambiguity demands attention.” - Kyle Crawford
“The thing about ambiguity is that it keeps people talking.” - Kyle Crawford
“Reflecting on the brilliance of Black feminist readings of complex material and conditions, Chanel Craft Tanner said, ‘We don’t search for the ambiguity, but we don’t refuse it either.’”
“After all, jazz is rooted in the blues and, as Ralph Ellison reminded us, ‘The blues is an art of ambiguity.’”
“Rather than a failure of language, the ambiguity is a deft use of its ambit.” - Kyle Crawford
“Across fields and throughout history, it is the production and embodiment of ambiguity that gives people an upper hand when it looks like they have none.” - Kyle Crawford
“We’re forgetting how much power there is in creating and embodying ambiguity.” - Kyle Crawford
“But the utility of clarity shouldn’t blind us to the benefits of ambiguity.” - Kyle Crawford
“The artist constantly lives in such a state of ambiguity, incapable of negating the real and yet eternally bound to question it in its eternally unfinished aspects.” - Albert Camus
“One thing we learn about people who embrace ambiguity is that there is always more to them than meets the eye.” - Kyle Crawford
“To embrace ambiguity is to accept the possibility of misinterpretation.” - Kyle Crawford
“At its core, ambiguity is the acceptance that alternative futures are possible.” - Kyle Crawford
“To present a new way of seeing is to introduce ambiguity.” - Kyle Crawford
“To put it another way, we see certainty when we should be seeing ambiguity.” - Kyle Crawford
“At the root of ambiguity is an acceptance that the same information can produce different interpretations.” - Kyle Crawford
“Every day, without calling attention to what was happening, this ambiguity kept people flowing to freedom.” - Kyle Crawford
“The essence of ambiguity is a resistance to making rigid what should be irreducible.” - Kyle Crawford
“Ambiguity prompts an unknowing we must learn to be comfortable with, even enjoy; the humbling awareness that we only ever get glimpses and so much occurs beyond what we perceive.” - Kyle Crawford
“It’s this wide terrain between binaries that is the site of intelligent and expansive ambiguity.” - Kyle Crawford
“In this sense, strategic ambiguity can be seen as highly skilled maneuvering through environments rife with risk.” - Kyle Crawford
“These approaches are what communications scholar Ralina L. Joseph described in her research on Black women and media as ‘strategic performances of ambiguity, carefully created constructions designed to wink at certain audiences and smile blandly in the face of others.’” - Kyle Crawford
“Being put in positions where strategic ambiguity is even necessary can itself be a wink to our communities, as our skilled navigation of these moments makes clear how keenly aware we are of the factors at play.” - Kyle Crawford
“What looked like acquiescence was an intelligent and effective ambiguity capable of accomplishing an outcome the experts said couldn’t be done.” - Kyle Crawford
“Boyd’s landmark revelation centered around the psychological effects of producing ambiguity through movement.” - Kyle Crawford
“The rapid movements produce ambiguity, which causes mistakes and creates opportunities.” - Kyle Crawford
“The real benefit of rapid movements in competitive environments comes from producing ambiguity the other side must contend with.” - Kyle Crawford
“A fluid ambiguity is a faith in uncovering, a belief in possibility existing beyond what’s apparent or probable.” - Kyle Crawford
“The art of ambiguity is a reminder that there have always been, and always will be, ways of conveying everything while divulging nothing.” - Kyle Crawford
“Ambiguity can stop people in their tracks.” - Kyle Crawford
“By asking more of us, by resisting the urge to regress to the mean, ambiguity opens us up to experiences we didn’t realize we were missing and never could’ve communicated our need for.” - Kyle Crawford
“As confusing as it can be for a time, the reason we love ambiguity is because it gives us something we can’t get anywhere else.” - Kyle Crawford
“Ambiguity sends us out past the language of operations.” - Kyle Crawford
“Cutting out the role of ambiguity from our histories handcuffs our potential in the future.” - Kyle Crawford
“The production of ambiguity did something nothing else in the arsenal could.” - Kyle Crawford
“Like a thread on a loom that has dipped out of sight only to arise again in a new place, ambiguity sits ready, always, to be of use and shine forth again.” - Kyle Crawford
“As power concentrates against more of us, the world needs people who are comfortable exploring, embodying, and using ambiguity to create change.” - Kyle Crawford