Confuse Quotations

People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion that leads them to mistrust scientists and, to their detriment, what they discover.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.

Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten because they are still there to confuse us.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.

Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.

What doesn't confuse me about what women wear? When it comes to women's fashion I'm so oblivious. I have no idea what's going on.

Don't confuse hypothesis and theory. The former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one. The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science.

I love Obama's calm and dignity. A lot of people confuse that with being aloof, but I know people that have held that job. It's a 24-hour barrage of information.

Infosys was going to be a different type of company. It was going to be very ethically run, meritocratic, quality-conscious, transparent. People didn't confuse the personal with the corporate.

Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a product, promoting a neoliberal logic that views schools as malls, students as consumers, and faculty as entrepreneurs.

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.

We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good.

Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who don't want the system to work and thugs who want to exploit a situation with the majority who from day one have operated with impeccable nonviolence and clear goals.

I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.

Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

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We're still calling the same plays that we called last season, but we're trying to mix it up a little bit. We played a little man, a little zone coverage, to try to keep them off-balance. We were able to confuse them a little bit.

We've got a plan, but don't confuse the plan with execution. We're doing something that is very different. Nobody goes around with 50 tones of water.

Whenever you confuse the consumer, they defer purchases.

We're gonna stay with what we normally do. We're gonna try not to confuse our kids. This is one ballgame; we want to be solid in what we're doing defensively. It's probably the only time we're going to face this type of offense all year.

We've said all along that it should be eliminated because the highway's official designation is U.S. 421. We get calls all the time from people who are lost because they are mixed up. Calling that road Business 40 does nothing but confuse motorists because they don't know where they're going.

When the judge looked at the evidence and saw how blatant the stem cell opponents were in stealing the codes and information from our Web site, he said that it was an obvious and intentional attempt to confuse the public. They're willing to use every tool of deception and disinformation to accomplish their goals.

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

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

Most people could benefit from the help of some sort of trained adviser, ... do more to confuse than help.

No one would ever likely confuse reality TV with Masterpiece Theatre.

Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.

I can go around talking complete and utter twaddle. I confuse people.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Certainly it has the potential to confuse voters through media coverage. The challenge for the primary candidates will be to articulate a compelling message that can cut through the clutter and establish him or her as a strong and viable candidate.

I don't think anyone should confuse when a team plays a very good offensive team like the Kings and they have a first half like they did, it's not because of our lack of fire.

From the corporate perspective, open source is a means, not an end, and if you confuse those you're going to have problems.

He tries to make the defense declare itself before we want to. We just have to do a good job of disguising, to try to confuse him a little bit, but it's going to be hard.

He will make things as hard on me as he can, ... He takes pride in trying to put pressure on the quarterback and trying to devise schemes to confuse your protection and try to get in the backfield. If we can handle it, we are going to have opportunities to make plays.

Today is about positions unwinding and we should not confuse price action with new, fundamental, information. When unwinds of magnitude take place, they have an endgame -- those positions will square and/or strong hands will dominate.

Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.' So I'm at the level of fame where people kind of know who I am, but they confuse me with other people.

I suspect that at least for a while people will like what United offers, feeling differentiated from the no-frills approach that almost every other airline is taking now. I think the problem is going to be managing it all. And if there are too many brands, it could confuse the customer.

It is great to teach real controversies in school. But 'intelligent design' is a false controversy, manufactured by its proponents. Its only 'design' is to confuse students about scientific evidence and methods. It has no standing at all in the scientific community, and the judge recognized this.

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.

I think we were able to confuse them a little bit by not letting them get comfortable.

I think a lot of people confuse something new with innovation, and it's two different things.

I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues.

Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in the world have no idea how to cross the road.

Last time we played, Coates got a lot of rebounds against us. We switched it up a lot tonight to confuse them.

Our key was to stay with our game plan, stay compact and be smart tactically because I knew we were going to score. Our goal was to shut them out, but Ontario Christian is a good team, and they're going to do some strange stuff to try and confuse us.

Parents sometime confuse Reading Recovery and think it is a special education program. But it's not. It is a short-term program designed to bring the child up to the classroom average in reading and writing.

People often confuse financial planning with investing, but financial planning is much broader than that.

Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.

I think I'd try a little bit of the spread offense a little bit earlier and try and confuse them, ... I felt like they weren't going to be able to stay with us in our base offense. I made some terrible adjustments.

I think he had a quite sort of ambiguous relationship to Holmes. It made him rich, it made him famous, but as often the case with these things, a writer can turn against his or her most successful creation; hence, he killed him off (in 'The Adventure of the Final Problem') and brought him back by popular request. And, of course, people did sort of confuse them and assume if he could invent these complicated mysteries, then he could also solve them.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels

We have to rely on what we've done in the past. To do fresh things at this stage would only confuse rather than enhance.

We had four different people score in the first game, so having a balance like that really helps to confuse the other team. It bolsters our confidence that we can spread the offense like that.

Timber Creek's guards are athletic but young. So we weren't necessarily trying to take the ball off of them, just confuse them so they made mistakes.

We have not decided yet who we will play and in training we have been mixing the players up to try and confuse the (Perth rugby media) as to what our intended line-up will be.

To try and make this a fight between the governor and the General Assembly is to confuse night and day. This is really simple. It's about spending.

We should not start up additional discussions which would confuse our ongoing work.

we can't stop here this is bat country.""If we're ever going to get out of here alive, we're going to need some golf shoes.""When speeding past a law enforcement officer it is neccessary to accelerate. When he pulls out behind you and turns on his lgihts, it is neccessary to turn on you blinker. This will confuse him, however it is to let him know you are looking for an appropriate place to pull over and talk.""This town loves a drunk.

We're never a good rebounding team, and that doesn't concern me. We try and spread the floor as much as we can because we're not that athletic. We can't pound the ball down your throat, but we hope to confuse you a little.

We need to do something about antiquated voting machines, ballots that confuse rather than clarify, and overcrowded polling places.

To me, there are two things. You can work and you can compete. Don't ever confuse working with competing. Competing for me is working with the will to get it done. Somehow, someway you're going to come up with a loose puck.

We all knew they were going to have the big guy down there. We didn't know they were going to go with a box-and-one (zone defense) on Earl. With only one day to prepare, we didn't want to confuse the kids and totally change the game plan.

We want to demystify the FCAT so that critics of accountability and assessment can't try to scare people or confuse people,

We try to confuse you as much as we can. I think it's hard for a quarterback.

We changed up our defense a couple of times, which seemed to confuse them. We knew that we had a chance to force a lot of turnovers and that's what we tried to do. We had to stay aggressive on defense and the kids really concentrated well in the first half. We have to do the little things well to be successful.

We are trying to work hard on the defense. When someone gets the ball, we need to run diagonals to confuse them and it's hard to get that through to them.

Every defense you have, there is a void in there somewhere. He finds it, ... The thing we've got to do is make the time for him to process all that a little shorter and to try to confuse him a little bit. You're not going to confuse him for a long period of time, but maybe just long enough to disrupt their passing game.

Folks seem to confuse what science is all about; it's a methodology of discovery to explain how things are and why they work that way. Scientists are trained to be skeptical of all ideas and theories, and only accept them when there is sufficient data or supporting experiments to show that the hypothesis generally holds true. Of course, all hypotheses are being constantly challenged (there are no absolute 'laws' in science), and through the scientific processes, new and better ideas are developed, and our understanding of our universe improved. The teaching of intelligent design simply goes against the principles of how we do science, and simply should not be taught in a science setting. ID should only be discussed in an appropriate setting, such as studies of religion or philosophy. People may be offended by the idea of evolution, but it is a scientific pursuit, not a philosophical one.

It would have been called provincial and barbarous; it would have been cited as an incident of low civilization to confuse such art.

The worst thing that could happen would be for the public to confuse the bees in white boxes with grumpy bees in wild bee populations.

The worst case scenario is for both plans to go on the ballot and confuse voters so nothing gets done again.

It would be a mistake to confuse this with leniency. For these two former executives, even several years in a state prison will be a very long stretch of time.

The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.

These look-alike products can confuse people and are a disservice to consumers.

Sometimes people confuse the notion that you're going to compromise sovereignty with collaboration.

Rafael is a great player. I think with both of us in there that we can really confuse defenses. They're not going to know where the ball is going. That's something that can work fairly well.

Our defenses confuse a lot of people. It confused us when coach put it in. Once we get it, the other team is in trouble.

Our defense is really flying to the ball. We've added a couple twists in certain situations and formations to confuse other team's offenses. We're quick and aggressive.

People confuse it with pandemic influenza, but they're very different diseases,

A few years ago, Circuit City was a good example of this. They gave one price online, another price in their ad, and a different price in the store, all for the same item, without any explanation as to why. Simply stated, that's a great way to confuse and frustrate customers.

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.

One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'

Anything we do now, before the WTO meeting, could confuse the facts and we'd be creating an impediment to the WTO,

The bottom line is when people are running and know that it's down to the hour they will often get desperate and twist information to confuse and mislead voters.

The United States must do something favorable to the smooth development of Sino-U.S. relations, rather than make remarks that confuse right and wrong and are harmful to relations,

This evidence is so weak and so fraught with danger to not only confuse the jury but also prejudice the defendant.

A lot of people confuse us with mall management or the concierge. They think we're part of the mall.

They do a lot of stand-up, walking around, try to confuse you early,

There was no intent to confuse or mislead anybody.

They're a very physical defense and very experienced defense that has a lot of smart players and plays a lot of different things. They try to confuse you. They blitz you a lot.

They're going to throw things at us, try to confuse us, but we just have to stay focused and stay calm. They know what's coming. Can they stop us? That's the whole point.

There's a lot of misinformation out there, ... Frankly, it's starting to confuse our customers and we've about had it with that.

It's a big difference. A lot of times teams don't know whether he's in the box or out of the box. A lot of times quarterbacks make their checks off of whether the safety's in the box or not. If you don't know where he's at, or how to count him, it's going to confuse the offense.

It really is the height of irresponsibility, ... There seems to be a coordinated effort to confuse everything.

For Christians, the reason why it is ordinarily assumed that a marriage will go on "till death do us part" has been that this advanced lesson in Charity which marriage opens into is a long, a difficult one, and the life span that my spouse and I are allowed will certainly not be nearly long enough to finish the lesson... I will have as much as I can do to learn this advanced lesson well with one other person; a harem will only confuse my efforts.