Complexes Quotes

• A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Insanity, Mind

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• Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

  Paul Tournier

  Life, Change, Running

  Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

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• Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Truth, Guilt, Rewards

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• Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

  Robert James Waller

  Real, Simplicity, Challenges

  Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.168, Random House

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• We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Civilization, Solitude

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• The simple and most complex answer is love.

  Nora Roberts

  Simple, Answers

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• Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

  Ann Patchett

  Reading, Character, Mean

  "And the Winner Isn’t..." by Ann Patchett, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Reality

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• There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or emotional image can carry him into a one-sidedness that makes him lose his balance...his one-sidedness and consequent loss of balance are much dreaded by primitives, who call it 'loss of soul.' Another threat...circles around particular complexes

  Carl Jung

  Loss, Men, Emotional

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• I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.

  Ben Bernanke

  Would Be, Financial, Problem

  "Anatomy of a Meltdown" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. December 1, 2008.

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• And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?

  William McDonough

  Nature, Food, Writing

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• Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.

  Anton Chekhov

  Simple, People, Meals

  Anton Chekhov (2007). “Chekhov Plays”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• I understand that finance can be very complex.

  Kevin Harrington

  Finance

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• The formal stuff feels old and windy. Not to say you shouldn't know prosody. But it's a wonderful time for exploratory poetics. Contemporary poets are inventing all kinds of wild, complex shapes for poetry, as we see. It's a wonderful time, less ego-centered.

  Anne Waldman

  Ego, Shapes, Stuff

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.

  Joseph Pilates

  Mind, Body, Shelter

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.

  Hugh Hefner

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

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• Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle, complex systems ran themselves just fine without benign intervention seemed like it could only be the product of a quasi-religious faith. ... Of course, this gets things almost precisely backwards. It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

  Julian Sanchez

  Religious, Order, Ideas

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• We humans are a complex interwoven system of the body, the mind, and the spirit. We are formed and informed by the interplay of these systems. Our health care, to be truly effective, must acknowledge and address this complexity and interconnectedness – and also the effect we have on each other.

  Ann Scott

  Mind, Body, Care

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• I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

  Joey Skaggs

  Issues, Attention, Passionate

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• Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing — cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Religious, Laughter, War

  "Cecil B. DeMille's Campaign for a Godly Culture" by Mark H. Creech, www.christianpost.com. September 9, 2013.

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• Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.

  Gerald Stern

  Beautiful, Lines, Masters

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• Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

  Philip Kaufman

  Thinking, Answers, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

  Robert Teeter

  Influence, Individual, Lost

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• All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

  Rudy Rucker

  Gnarly, Might, Expected

  Rudy Rucker (1999). “Seek!: Selected Nonfiction”, p.92, Running Press

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• Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

  Lucy Walker

  Sports, Challenges, Becoming

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