Simple And Complex Quotes (page 2)

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• short
• different
• work

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book. Margaret Mahy

• time
• simple
• song

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song. Zoltan Kodaly

• motivational
• simple
• view

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. Russell Banks

• simple
• manly
• problems and solutions

As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong. Umberto Eco

• god
• simple
• ignorance

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. Robert Green Ingersoll

• simple
• magic
• mind

A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name. Charles de Lint

• simple
• genius
• take

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple. Albert Einstein

• curiosity
• experience
• small

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion. Oscar Wilde

• enough
• everyday
• cancer

...that language may be a compound code, and that the discovery of an enormous complexity beneath a simple surface may well be more dismaying than delightful. E.g.: the maze of termite tunnels in your joist, the intricate cancer in her perfect breast, the psychopathology of everyday life, the Auschwitz in an anthill casually DDT'd by a child, the rage of atoms in a drop of ink - in short, anything examined curiously enough. John Barth

• life
• simple
• simplicity

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs. Jiddu Krishnamurti

• simple
• beautiful
• lazy

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. Barbra Streisand

• simple
• nature
• look

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together. Karl Von Clausewitz

• mind
• psychology
• mindfulness

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved. John Desmond Bernal