Confuse Quotes

• Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

  

  Arthur Gordon Webster
  • Acceptance
  • Apathy
  • Confuse

• I actually spoke to one of the heads of a studio, and he said I confuse middle America. Basically, when they see a black person, they see athlete, they see rapper, or they see criminal or something like that. And then when they hear a British accent, they hear posh, so they hear lawyer or doctor.

  

  Ricky Whittle
  • Lawyer
  • Actually
  • Criminal

• Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love with happiness, as if they were somehow the samae thing. In fact love, once found, is more akin to gravity: too strong, too close, and it will crush you. Unless you're careful, always.

  

  Wil McCarthy
  • Strong
  • Thing
  • Found

• The other two with their happy, objective minds would always be absorbed in the moment but she would look backward and remember, and look forward and be afraid, and the present would always confuse her because she would never entirely live in it.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Afraid

• Don’t confuse the process with the goal. Working on our processes to make them better, easier, and more efficient is an indispensable activity and something we should continually work on—but it is not the goal. Making the product great is the goal.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Work
  • Goal
  • Confuse

• The more that man is able to distinguish himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as subject, as an "I", to whom the whole world is Object, the more does he tend to confuse himself with God, to confuse his spirit with the Spirit of God.

  

  Emil Brunner
  • Creation
  • Conscious
  • Spirit Of God

• Don't ever confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am. My attitude always depends on who you are.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Attitude
  • Personality
  • Confuse

• And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that.

  

  Ava Gardner
  • Birthday
  • News
  • Jesus Christ

• And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, mistaken or potbellied. Death, panic, depression, and disillusionment may be near you. But you are not just that. You are accepted.' Never confuse your perception of yourself with the mystery that you really are accepted.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Death
  • Grace
  • Grow

• The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Inspiring
  • Confuse

• It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Life
  • Activity
  • Confuse

• Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Explain
  • Confuse

• The wise never confuse information or data, however prodigious or cleverly deployed, with comprehensive knowledge or wisdom...Be wise.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Confuse

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