Complexes Quotes · Page 13

I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.

— Scott D. Anthony

Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

— George Soros

Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world.

— T. B. Joshua

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

— Herbert Simon

Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of…

— John Noble

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

— Roger Ballen

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity .

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

— Victor J. Stenger

The writer, in order to proceed, is theoretically trying to predict where his complex skein of language and image has left his…

— George Saunders

As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of…

— Albert Bandura

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex…

— Sarah Zettel

The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex…

— David Horowitz

The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very…

— Owsley Stanley

Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The way a film is made tells you about its message. The processes are the same as the products. We made the…

— Alex Abreu

It is important to understand that while oxytocin may be the hub of the evolution of the social brain in mammals, it…

— Patricia Churchland

We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides,…

— Linus Pauling

Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances --all…

— George Dantzig

The ecology of the valley was complex beyond our understanding, and it began to die as we went on manipulating it in…

— William Kittredge

You cannot limit the debate to being solely in favour or against. It should be more complex. When you condemn, you need…

— Tariq Ramadan

Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war theater-all are complexes of numerous…

— George Dantzig

The war industries in many countries and the enormous trade in weapons of all kinds generate corruption and fuel conflict throughout the…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows…

— Michael Gazzaniga

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to…

— Dean Koontz

Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

— Masiela Lusha

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

— John Dewey

Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

— Robert Anton Wilson

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

— Scott Adams

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

— H. L. Mencken

The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.

— Marian Diamond

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

— Terence Tao

With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

— Edith Head

The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play.

— Anonymous

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

— Bernard Crick

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter…

— Isaac Asimov

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

— Michael Crichton

Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine.

— Kofi Annan