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

  28 Copy quote

• 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”

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  11 Copy quote

• 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

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Reality

  27 Copy quote

• 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.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• The simple and most complex answer is love.

  Nora Roberts

  Simple, Answers

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  15 Copy quote

• The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

  Jean Renoir

  Men, Grace, Saving

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fact that so many people choose to live in ways that narrow the community of fate to a very limited set of others and to define the rest as threatening to their way of life and values is deeply worrying because this contemporary form of tribalism, and the ideologies that support it, enable them to deny complex and more crosscutting mutual interdependencies-local, national, and international-and to elude their own role in creating long-term threats to their own wellbeing and that of others.

  Margaret Levi

  Fate, Creating, Long

  80 Copy quote

• I think [Hollywood] has achieved everything they’ve always dreamed of. The audience now seems to be very dumb. They pay money to watch the same film. Now, you could argue, that's because it makes them feel comfortable. When they go to a movie now, it's almost like hearing a pop song. You know the rhythms, you know when the downbeat is going to come, you know when the explosion is going to come… And so as life becomes more complex, as the economy is in trouble, people cling to what makes them comfortable, so they go again and again to see the same movie.

  Terry Gilliam

  Song, People, Watches

  "Terry Gilliam Talks The 'Simplistic' Films Of Steven Spielberg, Dumbing Down Of Audiences, ‘Don Quixote’ Start Date & More" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. January 07, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.

  Ted Nelson

  Mean, Paper, Body

  Proceedings of the 20th National Conference of the Association of Computing Machinery (1965)

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems

  Douglas Engelbart

  Problem, Coping, Mankind

  15 Copy quote

• Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Men, Design, Musical

  Introductory notes for Diatope performance, 1978.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  Plain Language, People, Simplicity

  15 Copy quote

• It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.

  Adolf Galland

  Frustration, Careers, Long

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

  Sam Altman

  Two, Innovation, Three

  23 Copy quote

• We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex substances with high molecular weight will come to rely upon a new structural chemistry, involving precise geometrical relationships among the atoms in the molecules and the rigorous application of the new structural principles, and that great progress will be made, through this technique, in the attack, by chemical methods, on the problems of biology and medicine.

  Linus Pauling

  Believe, Medicine, Rely Upon

  Linus Pauling, Barclay Kamb, Linda Pauling Kamb (2001). “Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers”, p.17, World Scientific

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty is only that the exact application of these laws leads to equations much too complicated to be soluble. It therefore becomes desirable that approximate practical methods of applying quantum mechanics should be developed, which can lead to an explanation of the main features of complex atomic systems without too much computation.

  Paul Dirac

  Law, Too Much, Chemistry

  Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (1995). “Sammlung”, p.391, Cambridge University Press

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• I find that many men and women are troubled by the thought that they are too small and inconsequential in the scheme of things. But that is not our real trouble - we are actually too big and too complex, for God made us in His image and we are too big to be satisfied with what the world offers us!.. Man is bored, because he is too big to be happy with that which sin is giving him. God has made him too great, his potential is too mighty.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Real, Men, Bored

  "Who Put Jesus on the Cross? And Other Questions of the Christian Faith". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1975.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to your own men and materiel. Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy’s information, political postures—dozens, literally dozens of factors.

  Joe Haldeman

  Military, War, Men

  4 Copy quote

• It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis was caused by a complex web of factors, including global imbalances caused by the rise of China. But with the populist narrative, you can just blame Goldman Sachs.

  David Brooks

  Simple, Would Be, Rise Of China

  3 Copy quote

• Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims

  James Q. Wilson

  Peace, Struggle, People

  19 Copy quote

• Americans have a severe disease - worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Disease, Winner, Aids

  "Gorbachev: 'Americans Have a Severe Disease'". Interview with Claire Shipman, abcnews.go.com. July 12, 2006.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source