Elaborate Quotes

215 Elaborate quotes by 192 unique authors

I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or… — Fred Durst
Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines. — Gary Hamel
New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil… — Mark Helprin
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different… — Henry James
Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments. — Daniel Kahneman
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every… — Anne Sullivan Macy
For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a… — Hilary Mantel
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming. — Idina Menzel
The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole… — Howard Nemerov
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. — Pablo Picasso
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. — J. B. Priestley
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. — Meg Rosoff
Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat.… — Eckhart Tolle
A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a… — Will Wright
Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and… — John Dewey
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for… — Noam Chomsky
A few weeks later, Iâ€™m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. Iâ€™m sitting next to a guy… — A. J. Jacobs
. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone. — Mercedes Lackey
We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather… — Heidi Julavits
There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always… — Nicholas Sparks

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