Muddle Quotations

I always thought that at the very time of your life when you want to be cool and sexy and fascinating, you are none of those things. You are a hormonal muddle in your school uniform sitting in double science looking at a boy who you know will never notice you. That was definitely me; I was so shy at school.

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.

If men understood domestic economy half as well as women do, then their political economy and their entire consequent statecraft would not be the futil muddle which it is.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie.

I don't have anything against anyone personally. But I think it's important to keep that definition straightforward, and not muddle it up.

If the economy continues to muddle through at around 2 percent annualized growth, we could very well slip into deflation in the next two years,

My opinion is that the Northern States will manage somehow to muddle through.

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

It's going to be very challenging for them, but they'll muddle through it. They've got some very capable people at the top. It is surmountable, but it's going to be a challenge.

Stuart was insisting (we contribute songs), which I thought was a pretty disastrous idea. The first couple of records were very self-contained worlds with a style that was all their own. It struck me as being insane to muddle what was so distinctive in the first place. I thought there would be a decline in quality. And I think there was.

They will muddle through for a few months, but then you run into the parliamentary elections in early December.

I'm not saying that a disorderly correction to global imbalances is certain to happen. Nor am I saying that the global economy is inevitably headed for a deflationary shortfall in demand. What I am saying is that, as prudent policymakers, we must not rely on good fortune to help us muddle through. We need to get going on these policy issues now, before it is too late to take remedial action.

I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - 'Where's the stage?' On tour, there are people directing and supervising you.

The market's mood is that the economic outlook is probably going to continue to muddle through; that we've been through the worst that we're going to go through on the oil price, and equity markets are not that expensive,

The market is now focusing back on earnings. We're almost through the earnings season, but it's disappointing, so the markets are going to muddle around here. We still might make a moderate recovery high in the rally then we're going to go back into the trading range and get through the next couple of months.

The Japanese economy for the first time in 15 years is getting up off the mat. They've gotten their banking system back in shape. Europe will probably muddle along, but China's growth will still be quite strong.