Intricate Quotes

• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Wasn't making any great connection
  Wasn't falling for any intricate scheme
  Nothing that would pass inspection
  Just thinking of a series of dreams

  Bob Dylan

  Dream, Fall, Thinking

  Song: Series of Dreams

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• Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Unique, Web Of Life

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Sep 13, 2011

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• Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

  Alice Childress

  Unique, African American, Patterns

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• My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Motivational, Work, Giving

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: with an introduction from Robert Ryan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

  Maria Popova

  Art, Productivity

  Twitter post from Nov 3, 2013

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• I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

  Channing Tatum

  Fun, People, Wish

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• I now believe that the universe was brought into existence by an infinite Intelligence. I believe that this universe's intricate laws manifest what scientists have called the Mind of God. I believe that life and reproduction originate in a divine Source. Why do I believe this, given that I expounded and defended atheism for more than a half century? The short answer is this: this is the world picture, as I see it, that has emerged from modern science.

  Antony Flew

  Believe, Infinite Intelligence, Law

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• The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

  Shirley Hufstedler

  Success, Keys, Rhythm Of Life

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• The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Wise, Simple

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• The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built.

  Fred Brooks

  Powerful, Self, Diversity

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• When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

  Pat Riley

  Sports, Teamwork, Volleyball

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Real, Stories, Research

  "Alessandro Nivola On the Record". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 08, 2010.

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• The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

  George Stigler

  Competition, Challenges, Citizens

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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• My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Giving, Mind, Exaltation

  Sherlock Holmes, responding to Doctor Watson's remonstrations about his cocaine use, in The Sign of Four (1890). So, cryptology replaces drug abuse!

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• Every religious tradition on which we draw has a reverence for life. We are a part of an intricate web of life. Every tradition on which we draw teaches that the ultimate expression of our spirituality is our action. Deep spirituality leads to action in the world. A deep reverence for life, love of nature's complex beauty and sense of intimate connection with the cosmos leads inevitably to a commitment to work for environmental and social justice.

  Peter Morales

  Religious, Love Life, Commitment

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• You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are as unstable as sunbeams on a cloudy day. It is this instability that is life, since it is forever changing its position in an effort to maintain its identity--in the manner of a long rod balanced on an acrobat's nose.

  Isaac Asimov

  Long, Effort, Forever

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.31, Macmillan

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• It's easy to be ignorant but it's very intricate to be aware.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Ignorant, Easy

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• I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and - in some mysterious way - significant.

  R. J. Anderson

  Unique, Ideas, Design

  R. J. Anderson (2011). “Ultraviolet”, p.290, Carolrhoda Lab

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• This is the blood's wild tree that grows the intricate and folded rose

  Judith Wright

  Blood, Rose, Tree

  Judith Wright, Jack Philip McKinney, Meredith McKinney (2004). “The Equal Heart and Mind: Letters Between Judith Wright and Jack McKinney”, p.109, Univ. of Queensland Press

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• The intricate and different life cycles of both male and female root-heads, and the great behavioral sophistication shown by the female in reconfiguring a host crab as a support system, all underscore the myopia of our conventional wisdom in regarding rhizocephalans as degenerate parasites because the adult anatomy of internal roots and external sac seem so simple.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Simple, Roots, Support Systems

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.371, Harvard University Press

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• Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

  El Greco

  Artist, Soul, Spirit

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• Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

  Laozi

  Simple, Men, Way

  Laozi, Archie J. Bahm (1996). “Tao Teh King”, p.91, Jain Publishing Company

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• Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved by the photographer for their own sake. The richness of texture fascinates the eye and the photographer falls easy prey to such quickly-caught complexities. The designs mean nothing in themselves and are merely pictorially attractive abstractions. A central problem in contemporary photography is to bring about a wider significance in purely textural imagery.

  Arthur Tress

  Photography, Fall, Mean

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• What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so I was making it all on the computer, and really the arrangements were coming first, the intricate thing.

  Annie E. Clark

  Writing, Records, Firsts

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