Nuance Quotes

“Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our skills are tested and refined.”

“A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.”

“Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.”

“Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.”

“By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself”

“I wanted that future officer to weigh decisions with a supple mind and to be comfortable with nuance and uncertainty. ”

“Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.”

“Nuance is anathema to his thinking, which is why he can maintain such fidelity to his ideas in a-hundred-and-forty-character bursts.”

“I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.”

“I teach my students that you can't be a journalist if you are going to be judgmental. If you have a judgmental nuance as you pose a question, people will close down.”