Complex Quotes

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In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or… — John Green
The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable. — Robert Greenberg
What we call matter is only a complex of energies which we find together in the same place. — Wolfgang Ostwald
If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus. — Rob Bell
Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical… — Gustav Nossal
The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small… — Gustav Nossal
I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody has walked down… — Suzanne Cory
Beware of people preaching simple solutions to complex problems. If the answer was easy someone more intelligent would have thought of it a long time… — Steve Herbert
Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They are very important.… — Jeffrey Sachs
In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine. — Sogyal Rinpoche
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run… — Vaclav Smil
For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time. — Lars Svendsen
Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest,… — Charles Darwin
A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another. When a particular… — Fritjof Capra
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's… — John Green
One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or… — John Green
While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex… — Julia Cameron
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language… — Bill Bryson
A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so. — Anatole France
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress

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