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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. -- Ansel Adams
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. -- Joichi Ito
Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently. -- Steve Pavlina
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. -- Robert A. Heinlein
One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space? -- Anish Kapoor
There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life. -- Todd Gitlin
Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit. -- Gwen Moore
Fuzzy Tally is no more. -- Scott Westerfeld
Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers and philosophers and throw the "new age" label at them is also abhorrent. -- Marianne Williamson
There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas. -- Jean-Luc Godard
A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well. -- Peter Weller
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past. -- Peter Carey
I hate my hair! When clean, it is fuzzy, and when not clean, it is lank. -- Jasmine Guinness
Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others. -- Brian Tracy
I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time. -- Frank Ocean
When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with. -- Patrick Stump
My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn't like that. -- Adam Sandler
I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy. -- Don Henley
If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face. -- Michael Eisner
The words 'God is love' conclude a biblical warning, not a warm and fuzzy slogan. 'He who doesn't love [his neighbor] doesn't love God, for God is love.' -- Mel White
From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island. -- Julian Baggini
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different. -- Diana Gabaldon
I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the fuzzy edges of sensitivity / old sins / and useless guilt. -- Marlene Dumas
Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to. -- Edward Witten
Whats happening in America today is parents are emphasizing their relationship with their children instead of leadership. Anyone in leadership will tell you you cannot have a warm, fuzzy relationship with someone youre in charge of leading. -- John Rosemond
So to keep a fantasy, do not peer too closely at the world; fuzzy vision suits you best. Your creative power, turned away, is aimed inside to juggle fantasies, to solve the problems of a child's intrigue. -- Arthur J. Deikman
Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think. -- Michael Porter
People feel removed from sexism. 'I'm not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple. -- Joss Whedon
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I have more appreciation for why the Bible avoids fuzzy psychologisms and says simply to the stealer, "Steal no more," and to the tempted, "Flee temptation." The Bible challenges us to look upward, not inward, for counsel at moments of crisis. -- Philip Yancey
I'm a radical environmentalist; I think the sooner we asphyxiate in our own filth, the better. The world will do better without us. Maybe some fuzzy animals will go with us, but there'll be plenty of other animals, and they'll be back. -- Anthony Bourdain
And for a lot of people, they want it all to be fuzzy and warm and cosmic, but it's no different with a horse than with a kid...You can't always be the kid's best friend. First you have to be the parent. -- Buck Brannaman
The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the U.N. -- Charles Krauthammer
The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones. -- Naveen Jain
As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger. -- Susan Orlean
It might seem paradoxical that the biggest scientific instruments of all are needed in order to probe the very smallest things in nature. The micro-world is inherently 'fuzzy' - the sharper the detail we wish to study, the higher the energy that is required and the bigger the accelerator that is needed. -- Martin Rees
I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes -- Robin Sloan
I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I'm aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy. -- Siri Hustvedt
If you look through the history of wearables, I was named the father of wearable computing, or the world's first cyborg. But the definition of wearable computing can be kind of fuzzy itself. Thousands of years ago, in China, people would wear an abacus around their neck - that, in one sense, was a wearable computer. -- Steve Mann
Analysis of President Bush's tax plan has revealed that several elaborate tricks and gimmicks were used to make it look like a $1.35 trillion cut, but in reality it's going to be closer to costing $1.8 trillion. Critics claim it's math so fuzzy, you have to squint to see our nation's future of subsistence farming and post-apocalyptic roving motorcycle gangs. -- Jon Stewart
after an epic search, I finally found something neither green nor fuzzy. It was a hot sausage link. I named it Peter, mostly because it seemed like the right thing to do. As soon as my java was piping hot I popped him into the microwave. hopefully the radioactive environment would sterilize Peter. No need to have little Peters running around, wreaking havoc. -- Darynda Jones
Siphonophores do not convey the message a favorite theme of unthinking romanticism that nature is but one gigantic whole, all its parts intimately connected and interacting in some higher, ineffable harmony. Nature revels in boundaries and distinctions; we inhabit a universe of structure. But since our universe of structure has evolved historically, it must present us with fuzzy boundaries, where one kind of thing grades into another. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Does fuzzy logic tickle? -- Steven Wright
The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy. -- Milan Kundera
Apparently Hillary [Clinton] doesn't come off as warm fuzzy. -- Rush Limbaugh
Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations. -- Isaac Asimov
I think, like most people, my moral values tend to be pretty fuzzy. -- Mick Jagger
That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop. -- Marilyn Monroe
I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass. -- Tom T. Hall
Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language. -- Stanislas Dehaene
Love is a blur. So is this picture. But what do you expect? Murder is fuzzy, like a peach. Yummy! -- Jarod Kintz
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. -- Elliott Chaze
I'm getting all warm and fuzzy inside at the prospect of these demon things roaming the street, preying on us. (Tate) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it. -- Clay Shirky
I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me. -- Ted Nugent
She can tell you the height of the attacker from the trigonometry of the blood spatter, while I'm fuzzy on what trigonometry is. -- Ilona Andrews
It was one of those and so they died/the end stories, that made us demigods feels all warm and fuzzy inside.-Percy -- Rick Riordan
Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward... -- Martha Beck
The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make me warm and fuzzy. -- Ilona Andrews
Do you want me to call you Celery Stick instead of Cupcake or Honey-Pie? It just doesn't inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings. -- Richelle Mead
It's hard being such a powerful woman in the business. I'm known for not always being warm and fuzzy, because you'll just get bulldozed over. -- Christina Aguilera
Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy. -- John P. Kotter
It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads? -- Jennifer Egan
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy. -- Bobby Knight
Books are growing more honest at a younger age, and the world is becoming less warm and fuzzy. Or at least the monsters are out in the open. -- David Lubar
A Wrackspurt . . . They're invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy," she said. "I thought I felt one zooming around in here. -- J. K. Rowling
I'm a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending-if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism. -- Charles Stross
Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews pay for their precious dignity. -- Fred Rodell
What good is it, being two stranded British fops in the heart of America, if we don't announce it on Halloween by wearing enormous fuzzy hats for the purpose of our humiliation? -- Red Tash
The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help. -- Julie Berry
There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is sharp, clear, precise, perfect, luminous, shiny, happy, etheric, cosmic, and dissolute. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is sharp, clear, precise, perfect, luminous, shiny, happy, etheric, cosmic, and dissolute. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a kind of fuzzy thinking - which is abhorrent to a serious person. -- Marianne Williamson
I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise mixocological difference between a Slippery Nipple and a fuzzy navel. -- David Foster Wallace
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils? -- Barbara Kingsolver
Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region. -- Bill Mollison

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