Ambivalence Quotes
Collection of top 38 famous quotes about Ambivalence
Ambivalence Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Ambivalence quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Often, people want both to live and to die; ambivalence saturates the suicidal act.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
The mental mist of ambiguity and the fog of ambivalence hamper human existence.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
He had to pause for his usual misgivings.
— Paul C. Nagel
'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.
— Matt Groening
Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
— Annette Funicello
Raising a child is the very definition of ambivalence. I am overwhelmed at times by how something can simultaneously be so awful and so rewarding.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
— Penelope Lively
I am introducing a new idea. Try to care less. Practice ambivalence. Learn to let go of wanting it.
— Amy Poehler
nevermore will i lie in the wake of your ambivalence
— A.P. Sweet
I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over.
— Andre Agassi
under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable.
— Geraldine Brooks
They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.
— David Mamet
We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.
— Lionel Barber
I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.
— Jennifer Egan
Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.
— T.E. Lawrence
A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.
— Suzanne Finnamore
What am I doing? Tearing myself. My usual occupation at most times.
— Charles Dickens
Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.
— Louise Bourgeois
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
— Michel De Certeau
I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.
— Jonathan Gottschall
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.
— Fernando Perez
In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.
— Marsilio Ficino
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.
— Joan Mitchell
Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly.
— Cherie Carter-Scott