Aphorism Quote by Gretchen Rubin

We know that the ability to take on complex ideas, to handle the notion of a multiplicity of viewpoints, to deal in abstract thought…

— Michael Rosen

“Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking and thrilling.”—Time”

— Neal Stephenson

Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex

— Albert Einstein

If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this…

— Daniel H. Pink

I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.

— Ben Nicholson

“people often confuse complex ideas that cannot be simplified into a media-friendly statement as symptomatic of a confused mind.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think there's something nice about a distilled sound.

— Melody Gardot

Poetry is life distilled.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“the distilled spirits business is dominated by giant producers who run immensely productive facilities that produce complex, expensive chemical admixtures year after year. That’s…

— Adam Rogers

Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

— Nicholas Culpeper

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

— Nicholas Culpeper