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Baffled Quotes

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

Benoit Mandelbrot's lecture at the University of Maryland, March 2005.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

George Steiner, Laure Adler (2017). “A Long Saturday: Conversations”, p.61, University of Chicago Press

I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now and I am certainly healthier than I was in my early 30s. I am more rounded too.

"'Being a mum has never bothered me too much but I love being an auntie': Julia Sawalha on kids, family and Ab Fab". Interview with Christine Smith, www.mirror.co.uk. July 18, 2012.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

"Annie Lennox: 'I would have been perfect as a man'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.71, Penguin

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

"Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.