Complex Quotes

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As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel from… — Thomas Metzinger
A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme… — Seth Klarman
Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's asÂ thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite.Â The… — Jesse Kellerman
Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself,… — Andre Comte-Sponville
When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters… — Reyner Banham
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief… — Brian Evenson
Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction… — Craig Shaw Gardner
Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or insignificant, but of… — John Burnside
What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We donâ€™t see it, because we see… — Rebecca Goldstein
Even the most complex problem is resolved in the end. Because if there's a question, there also is an answer. — Kim Joon
There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more… — Haley Joel Osment
The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured… — Angela Davis
No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What… — George Nelson
I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time… — Tadao Ando
The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The… — C J Cherryh
No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to… — Daisaku Ikeda
A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating… — Carl Jung
I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their… — Ayn Rand
The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a… — Douglas Adams
Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need… — Galen Rowell

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