Complexes Quotes - Page 17

• I guess nobody assumes anybody is a libertarian. It's a more complex political discussion than most people are used to, to explain why you think the way you do about public education or drug laws, and why it's not as simple as being for or against something.

  Dave Barry

  Simple, Thinking, Law

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his reader, who he has likely never met and who is actually thousands of readers.

  George Saunders

  Order, Trying, Language

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• When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film.

  Werner Herzog

  Feet, Tourism, Doe

  Source: www.slate.com

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• One of our needs in a very complex society, where we encounter more people every day than probably our ancestors encountered over their whole lifetime, is our need to very rapidly evaluate other people. And one of the most potent ways of doing that is through our automobiles. So, a car isn't just a thing. It's a set of symbols and associations that we have to figure out in order to understand how we navigate our social worlds with that car.

  Paul Solman

  Order, Car, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

  Albert Bandura

  Development, May, Self Efficacy

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• The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.

  James Hollis

  Consciousness, Individuation, Personhood

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.116, Inner City Books

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• It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

  Bill Gates

  Everyday, Tools, World

  Rolling Stone Interview, genius.com.

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• Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

  Eric Kandel

  Perspective, Way, Dimensions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex and challenging and I love it. I'm sort of a glutton for work and to direct something that I'm acting in feeds the vein.

  Jason Bateman

  Challenges, Acting, Directors

  "Toronto: Jason Bateman on Talks Directing Himself in ‘The Family Fang’" by Kathy A. Mcdonald, variety.com. September 11, 2015.

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• Basically, for any complex to be sustainable needs to have a balance between two factors: resilience and efficiency. These two factors can be calculated from the structure of the network that is involved in a complex system. A resilient, efficient system needs to be diverse and interconnected. On the other hand, diversity and interconnectivity decrease efficiency. Therefore, the key is an appropriate balance between efficiency and resilience.

  Bernard Lietaer

  Keys, Hands, Two

  Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.

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• There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Flower, Butterfly, Simple

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• As humans, no matter our level of understanding, we are very complex beings with very complex thoughts. There are ideas that each of us have within our heads that are so different from each other it is mind boggling.

  Matthew Carter

  Ideas, Understanding, Mind

  Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com

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• The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work that is as transparent and simple as possible. No matter how much I strip away the result is always more complex to me than I expect.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Simple, Ease, Matter

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say aloud.

  Jillian Medoff

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.

  Flemming Rose

  Growing Up, People, Being Different

  Source: theundercurrent.org

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• I don't believe that relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing, say the right, and behave the same way or the way we always want to behave.

  Jack Nicholson

  Confused, Believe, People

  Source: cinema.com

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• If it is difficult to know yourself as an individual, it seems to be more complex as a couple. So if you say, "Oh I like a person who is like this and that," you might take away the possibility of seeing the only one that might be right for you.

  Jack Nicholson

  Couple, Might, Individual

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Literature

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• In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Hate

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• China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Years, Long, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.

  Edwidge Danticat

  People, Trying, Stories

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. October 14, 2013.

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• I personally kind of yearn to play characters who are complex and who strike a truthful chord in me and who are challenged in some way and, I guess, who kind of move through those challenges.

  Toni Collette

  Moving, Character, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.

  Scott Adams

  Simple, Religion, Trying

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• Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical, spiritual, social, economic, and psychological forces that shape individuals, you will see that people's choices are not based on a desire to hurt. Instead, they are in accord with what they know and what world views are available to them. Most are doing the best they can, given what information they've received and what problems they are facing.

  Michael Lerner

  Spiritual, Hurt, Believe

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• Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

  Jason Isaacs

  Strong, Real, Character

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

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