Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them. — Tsutomu Shimomura Copy Share Image
Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems. — Art Hoppe Copy Share Image
A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the… — Jerry Sabloff Copy Share Image
When life tends to get too complex, too fast, too cluttered, too deadline oriented, or too type A for you, stop and… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice?… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I never laughed. I was always sour. If I look at pictures of me from the past, I… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words… — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would… — Joseph C. Rost Copy Share Image
Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, the Zionists and their co-religionists have complete control of our government. For many reasons, too many and… — Benjamin H. Freedman Copy Share Image
To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
We can now determine, easily and relatively cheaply, the detailed chemical architecture of genes ; and we can trace the products of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think [Hollywood] has achieved everything they’ve always dreamed of. The audience now seems to be very dumb. They pay money to… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My feeling is that a human being or any complex organism has a system of cognitive structures that develop much in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Great Famine is a period of our history that we need to know in great detail in order to understand its… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery. — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex. — Arthur Guiterman Copy Share Image
Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error. — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe. — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image