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“The new "ambiguity" means, in a way adjudged favorable to literary, poetic, intellectually and psychologically well-devised and praiseworthily executed linguistic performance, uncertainty of meaning, or difficulty for the interpreter in identifying just what the meaning in question is: it means the old meanings of ambiguity with a difference. It means uncertainty of meaning (of a word or combination of words) purposefully incorporated in a literary composition for the attainment of the utmost possible variety of meaning-play compressible within the verbal limits of the composition.”

Way Wells Mean Play Differences Limits Performances Difficulty Variety Combination Uncertainty Poetic Composition Ambiguity Attainment Identifying Interpreter

Author:Laura Riding

“Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.”

Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

“'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.”

Humans Body America Beautiful Desire Artist Animal Powerful Air Performances Horse Difficulty Musical Narrative Fulfillment Latin Latin America Suspended Debut Underwater Humans And Animals

Author:Mark Doty

“The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.”

Doe Behinds Determination Essence Performances Difficulty Sticks Teeth Vow

Book:Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi

“Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war. ... Countless minor incidents - the kind you can never really foresee - combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.”

Kind War Ends Fall Difficult Goal Simple Levels Performances Difficulty Minors Simplest Incidents Friction

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.”

Ifs I Can Pain Purpose Artist Certain Can Do Audience Our Lives Stage Dying Fronts Performances Difficulty Mirrors You Can Do It I Can Do This

Author:Marina Abramovic

“Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.”

Easy Difficult Design Prove Performances Difficulty Designer Graphic Design Graphic Artist Graphic Designer Industrial Design Graphic Design Inspiration

Book:The History of Rasselas, Etc. [With a Life of Dr. Johnson.]

Source: The History of Rasselas, Etc. [With a Life of Dr. Johnson.]

“I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.”

Remember Challenges Memories Business Technology Clear Cost Advantage Performances Difficulty Core Magnetic

Author:Gordon Moore

“I’ve learned that possibly the greatest detractor from high performance is fear: fear that you are not prepared, fear that you are in over your head, fear that you are not worthy, and ultimately, fear of failure. If you can eliminate that fear—not through arrogance or just wishing difficulties away, but through hard work and preparation—you will put yourself in an incredibly powerful position to take on the challenges you face.”

Source: Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion

“The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.”

Men Life Doe Real States Whole Differences Learning Trouble Performances Difficulty Average Kicks Bowls Pins Differentiate Irritation Average Man Mules

Author:Herbert Newton Casson