Complicated Life Quotes

• If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

  John von Neumann

  Believe, Math, Simple

  John von Neumann's remarks as keynote speaker at the first national meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery (1947) as quoted in "Archaeology of computers: Reminiscences, 1945-1947" by Franz L. Alt, Communications of the ACM, Volume 15, Issue 7, special issue: Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for Computing Machinery (p. 694), July 1972.

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• Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

  Geena Davis

  Play, Problem, Flaws

  "Comic-Con 2016 Interviews: Geena Davis, Ben Daniels, Alfonso Herrera & Jeremy Slater Discuss the Upcoming Fox Series THE EXORCIST". Interview with Heather Wixson, dailydead.com. July 29, 2016.

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• Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Ideas, People, Secret

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.148, Penguin

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• Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Simple, Bhajans

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

  Sara Zarr

  Thinking, Years, People

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• I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the '80s and my grandparents going, "Oh, it's too complicated." It didn't seem complicated to me.

  Dan Mangan

  Growing Up, Kids, Technology

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Opposites, Facts, Complicated

  Blake Mycoskie (2012). “Start Something That Matters”, p.113, Random House

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• That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Simple, Complicated, Made

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.86, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There is such a bias against people who have led successful and/or complicated lives. You know, the divestment of assets, the stripping of all kinds of positions, the sale of stocks. It just becomes very onerous and unnecessary.

  Hillary Clinton

  Successful, People, Kind

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

  Charles Mingus

  Creativity, Simple, Plain Language

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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  It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Sweet, Real, Simple

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

  Socrates

  Life, Time, Simple

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

  A. N. Wilson

  Birthday, School, Exercise

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• Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.

  John Dewey

  Past, History, Imagination

  John Dewey (1970). “Characters and events: popular essays in social and political philosophy”

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• The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?

  Cheryl Strayed

  Liars, Self, Order

  "Dear Sugar, The Rumpus advice Column #68: The bad things you did". therumpus.net. March 24, 2011.

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• Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no more than the fringe of the garment, and that you need not spend so much anxiety over them, provided that the one most important is faithfully attended to.

  Anna Brackett

  Simplicity, Priorities, Anxiety

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• Being gay is just one aspect of my very complicated life. I do not wear it on my sleeve.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Gay, Complicated, Aspect

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