Julien Baker Quotes

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

The simple questions are always the hardest ones.

...and what it all comes down to is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet.

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

That sometimes clear ... and sometimes vague stuff ... which is ... mathematics.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.

Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not unfrequently — like the effect of a fog or moonshine — gives to things exaggerated dimensions and an unnatural appearance.

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

The simplest questions are the most difficult.