Confused Quotes

• A great many of us have confused change with progress.

  

  Adela Rogers St. Johns
  • Change
  • Progress
  • Confused

• I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long novel, and it's so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there's definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that's their prerogative, but it's not really my intent.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • People
  • Long
  • Water

• Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

  

  Jose Bergamin
  • Pride
  • Confused

• It was like she understood something about me that she'd never quite understood before. I always felt that when she looked at me, she was trying to find me, trying to find out who I was. But it seemed at that moment that she saw me, that she knew me. But that confused me.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Confused
  • Understood
  • Find Me

• There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Reason

• A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Soul
  • Sleep
  • Imagination

• After 'Life Unexpected' ended, I wanted to do something that was completely different from Lux and that show. I wanted to be able to keep my fans, but not have them confused about who I was or what my character was.

  

  Britt Robertson
  • Life
  • Different
  • Character

• I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Creative
  • Imagine
  • Confused

• The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Church
  • Fighting
  • Prayer

• The reason for backing tracks is to not veer off too far from the record and have what the fans actually want to hear. Artists use backing tracks just so they can stay close to the record and what the consumer heard for the first time. It's not to be confused with lip synching or anything like that cos that's not happening at all.

  

  Chris Johnson
  • Reason
  • Artist
  • Fans

• The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable.

  

  Kaoru Ishikawa
  • Quality
  • Improvement
  • Inseparable

• Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and selling them.

  

  Gerry Harvey
  • Business
  • Selling
  • Buying

• Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mind
  • Confused
  • Distortion

• As young girls we grow up with the idea that life is going to be a bit of a fairytale. But at some point reality hits and we realise that's not what life is about. Many of us are faced with eating disorders and mental health struggles, bad relationships and heartbreak, low self-esteem and confused sexualities and more. Life is very much real.

  

  Darren Fletcher
  • Girl
  • Growing
  • Relationship

• The laws of thought are natural laws with which we have no power to interfere, and which are of course not to be in any way confused with the artificial laws of a country, which are invented by men and can be altered by them. Every science is occupied in detecting and describing the natural laws which are inflexibly observed by the objects treated in the Science.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Country
  • Law
  • Natural

• I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Answers
  • Confused
  • Spokesman

• Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

  

  Will Self
  • Individual
  • Conflict
  • Futility

• Sometimes I get a little confused because with dancing I can express my emotions with my body. With acting you have to do it with your face and your expressions, and then with animated shows you have to use your voice and use your inflections. So it's definitely a challenge to transfer from each genre of entertainment.

  

  Alyson Stoner
  • Challenge
  • Confused

• Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • I Think
  • Confused
  • Obvious

• Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Ideas
  • Humility
  • Meekness

• Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst problem? Uncertainty. They are traumatized and become emotional or confused to the state of inaction. Even worse, they try to solve a short-term problem in a way that hurts them financially in the long run.

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • Long
  • Emotional
  • Confused

• There have been many times when I thought I was having a logical discussion with a woman, and then I'm left sitting alone, confused, trying to recount how it went down.

  

  Alex O'Loughlin
  • Trying
  • Alone
  • Confused

• I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Children
  • Family

• I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

  

  Jonathan Lethem
  • Confused

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