Complexities Quotes

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The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear. — Toi Derricotte
To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements… — R. Scott Bakker
Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of… — Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by communion with unspoiled… — Laurance Rockefeller
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities,Â all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary… — Jane McGonigal
Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert… — Ron Suskind
Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the… — Albert Einstein
The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and… — Anthony Doerr
To taste fully is to live fully. And to live fully is to be awake and responsive to complexities and truths--good and terrible, overwhelming and… — Kate Christensen
The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them. — Chogyam Trungpa
In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a… — Wesley Morris
The Talker needs attention. The Talker needs validation. The Talker would rather talk about an idea than confront the complexities, its obstacles. The Talker wants… — Jack Heffron
Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free! — Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some… — Joy Bryant
Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials; get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the question what business… — Henry Maudslay
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for… — Anne Stevenson
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it.… — Gregory Maguire
The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural… — Kenny Smith
All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities. — Thomas Sowell

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