Gretchen Rubin

Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.

American Author

Martha Beck

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.

Valeria Golino

I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it as I could have? No. But I was always ambivalent about Hollywood and what I wanted. And ambivalence in our business is no good for success.

Italian Actress

Paul de Man

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

Belgian Critic

Joyce Carol Oates

Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.

American Novelist

John Ortberg

Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.

American Clergyman

John Scott

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

Penelope Lively

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

English Author

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.

American Businesswoman

Jane Pauley

I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.

American Journalist

Ambivalence is common in daily life when making decisions or judging situations.

Everyday Feelings

In scenarios with no clear correct choice, ambivalence typically arises.

No Right Answer

Ambivalence does not imply a negative attitude; the mixed feelings can be both positive and negative.

Positive or Negative?

In psychology, 'ambivalence' reflects deeper, often subconscious, emotional conflicts.

Deeper Emotions

Psychological ambivalence might be long-lasting and can influence behavior over time.

Not Just Temporary

Understanding one's ambivalence can offer insights into seemingly contradictory actions or feelings.

Insight into Actions

 behind the scenes and thrives there and I found despite a really wide range of fields and industries that all these people work in that they share certain traits the most important of which is that they have a real ambivalence toward recognition they simply don't seek

Why being invisible can...

 understand the refugee system is broken you know the US wants to help refugees but also does not want too many of them to come here and I think every country is the same and having that ambivalence I think that that our system addresses

"He Saved My Life"...

 my ambivalence about my education led to pretty average grades. Luckily for me, my mother understood something important, and that was that my location was not my destination.