"Complexes" Quotes . Top 31 Short Quotes About "Complexes"

"I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it."

--- A. Lee Martinez

#Complexes #Conscious #Philosopher

"My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war."

--- A.M. Homes

#Blow Job #War #Complexes

"Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling with his most primitive desires--wanting and needing. It is a novel about the complex relationships between parents and children, a story of loss and of our unrelenting need for acknowledgment, to be seen as who we are. And in the end it is simply a love story for our time."

--- A.M. Homes

#Who We Are #Our Time #Complex Relationships

"Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple."

--- Aaron Copland

#Complexes #Born #Musical

"I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to."

--- Aaron Stanford

#I Can #Feels #Complexes

"Preston smirked. “You’re gonna have to stop calling me things like ‘gorgeous’ and ‘beautiful.’ I’m gonna get a complex. Why can’t I be ‘sexy,’ or maybe ‘irresistible’?"

--- Abbi Glines

#Gorgeous #Complexes #Beautiful

"The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time."

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#People #Reason #Fundamentals

"The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter and point. Every concept and content, every notion and idea, of every spiritual movement, of every vibration, intellectual and emotional, from the immediate and general to the distant and detailed, from matters lofty, spiritual, and ethical according to their outward profile, to matters practical, obligatory, seemingly frightening, and forceful, and at the same time complex and full of content and great mental exertion - all together become known by a supernal holy awareness."

--- Abraham Isaac Kook

#Awareness #Practicals #Complexes

"The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex."

--- Adam Ant

#Complexes #Heart Transplant #Transplants

"New laws, new kinds of things can emerge as the universe evolves. The more moving parts you have in something, the more possibilities there are. There's a whole new science now of complexity, and what we see is that complexity requires a very different approach than the kind of bottom-up approach that fundamental physics has always used. We're gonna have to think about the world in a different way if we want to address complex systems."

--- Adam Frank

#Thinking #Fundamentals #Complexes

"I'm found of what's called emergence - as the universe gets more complex, new laws can emerge. Like evolution - there's things that you just aren't able to explain, even if you had an understanding of atoms."

--- Adam Frank

#Found #Complexes #Law

"If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil."

--- Adam Gollner

#Meat #Military Industrial Complex #Heavy Metal

"Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate."

--- Adam Savage

#Effects #Complexes #Experiments

"The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex."

--- Adam Smith

#Effects #Employed #Complexes

"It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again."

--- Adolf Galland

#Unfortunate Circumstances #Circumstances #Complexes

"You can use the fun of the genre, but I also really wanted to come at it from the point of view of some really complex characterization. There was a lot that I wanted it to do, and I wanted it to be fun. It's fun, but it's not simple fun."

--- Adrian Hodges

#Complexes #Characterization #Genre

"Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process."

--- Adrian Smith

#Answers #Complexes #Approach

"The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters."

--- Adrian Tchaikovsky

#Book #New Ideas #Complexes

"To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization."

--- Adrienne Clarkson

#Mean #Complexes #Paradox

"[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice period piece, but that's not always the case. There's a deep human mystery in his work."

--- Agnieszka Holland

#People #Complexes #Nice

"Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does."

--- Ahmed H. Zewail

#Thinking #Folds #Whole World

"I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my current work right now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That's the ultimate goal."

--- Ahmed H. Zewail

#Ultimate Goal #Complexes #Structure

"We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Complexes #Today #Simplify

"Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Might #Destroying #Complexes

"I find that many men and women are troubled by the thought that they are too small and inconsequential in the scheme of things. But that is not our real trouble - we are actually too big and too complex, for God made us in His image and we are too big to be satisfied with what the world offers us!.. Man is bored, because he is too big to be happy with that which sin is giving him. God has made him too great, his potential is too mighty."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Sin #Made #Complexes

"[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring her legacy."

--- Aisha Hinds

#Complexes #World #Insufficient

"The constant drive for campaign dollars has distorted decision-making in Washington, DC, to the point where our systems can no longer effectively address complex, long-term problems like the climate crisis. Which brings me to my other major concern - the short-term focus of capitalism. It distorts the allocation of resources and the decision-making processes of companies."

--- Al Gore

#Dollars #Term #Complexes

"Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious."

--- Al McGuire

#Sports Coaching #Basketball Coach #Complexes

"In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water, the need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts."

--- Alain de Botton

#Desperate #Solutions #Love

"All change requires effort and sacrifice. Sometimes action plans fail because they are based on the idea that there is a 'magic bullet' which on its own can solve our problems.This is not true. Complex human problems typically require complex solutions with many different components."

--- Alan Carr

#Solutions #Magic #Complexes

"The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy."

--- Alan Grayson

#People #Oil #Economic Policy

31 "Complexes" Quotes