Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
Interpretation
Confusion often signifies depth of understanding and awareness of complexity.
This quote by Edward R. Murrow suggests that true comprehension of complex situations involves recognizing their ambiguity and uncertainty. If someone claims to fully understand without any confusion, they may not be perceiving the nuances and intricacies present in the reality of the situation.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about leadership challenges.
We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.
Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
Live as if you were living already for the second time.
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
I would always advise young people to follow their star - not my star. They have to live their own life. If they decide they want to go into the investment business, do it, but make it a better business than it is today.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Doverey, no proverey - Trust but verify.
Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.
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