“The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.” InspirationalNeedsHumansRealBalanceHonorPerfectionOrganizationEducationalCustomersTricksClarityCertaintyUncertaintyImperfectionInherentPreferenceFeedbackAmbiguityIntegratingHuman RelationsHuman Relationships Author:Richard Pascale
“Some, while deploring animal abuses, on the same breath approve 'benefits to humans from certain animal abuses'! Who would criticize the Jewish holocaust or Black slavery, and YET praise the benefits to Germans or Whites??? This convenient ambiguity at the expense of animals is unacceptable!!!” HumansCertainBlackAnimalBenefitsAbusePraiseBreathsSlaveryExpensesCriticizeAnimal RightsHolocaustAmbiguityConvenientAnimal Abuse Author:Adela Popescu
“The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.” HumansArtMusicFailingCircumstancesAmbiguityAssertion Book:The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison Source: The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
“Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along (and may be a product of the principle that "nothing is what it seems"). I did start with some essential ambiguousness in the aliens' motivation and the questions this raises in human minds, which I consider to have been disregarded in Contact (novel and film). That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series.” WritingMindHumansMayHas BeensStoriesSeemsFilmMotivationPrinciplesNovelProductsEssentialsRaisesSeriesContactAliensComplexityHuman MindFifthAmbiguityDelayedDisregarded Author:James Gunn