Complexes Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

  Donny Osmond

  America, Romance, Selfishness

  "Donny Osmond reveals secrets to his happy 32-year marriage". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegassun.com. October 11, 2010.

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• We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

  Camille Paglia

  Stars, Psychics, These Days

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• Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.

  Henry Paulson

  Home, Due Diligence, Today

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• Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Business, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Peter's Almanac". Book by Laurence J. Peter. Entry for September 24, 1982.

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• Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

  Steven Pinker

  Self, Empathy, Violence

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• The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

  Steven Pinker

  Brain, Mind, Bags

  "Will Genetic Engineering Kill Us?" by Mark Baard, www.wired.com. April 16, 2003.

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• Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fake People, Women, Independent

  "Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness". Book by Edward Butscher (p. 181), 2003.

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• The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

  Terry Pratchett

  Boys, Games, Long

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• One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

  Dennis Prager

  College, Profound, Mind

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• We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Order, Law

  "A Plea for Caution From Russia". www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2013.

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• Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

  Paul Rand

  Communication, Technology, Views

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• They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Simple, Answers

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, NewsMax Media, Inc.

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• In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

  Gary Ross

  Doe, World, Want

  "Interview: Gary Ross breathes his life into 'Pleasantville'". www.cnn.com. October 12, 1998.

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• Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topography, Alternatives, World

  "Ask an Art Critic: Jerry Saltz Answers Your Questions About George Condo, Online Art Fairs, and What Abstraction Really Is" by Jerry Saltz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2011.

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• Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Writing, People

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• Life is complex. You don't have any person who is nice from the beginning until the end. You don't always have the notion of redemption. The bad people don't always pay.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Nice, People, Redemption

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 9, 2012.

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• I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Dark, Brain, Sides

  "Marjane Satrapi: Superman is Boring, Batman is Hot, Dictators Are Clueless". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

  Adam Savage

  Design, Chocolate, Special

  "Potentially awesome outcomes: Adam Savage on the courage to try". www.wired.com. October 30, 2012.

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

  Nate Silver

  People, Acting, Degrees

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