Complex Quotes

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. (Oscar Wilde)
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. View quote
Mark Twain
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. View quote
E. F. Schumacher
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. View quote
Walt Disney
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
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. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. View quote
Henry James
It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development. View quote
Rita Levi-Montalcini
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. (Laurence J. Peter)
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power. View quote
Ulrich Beck
The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. View quote
George Stigler
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. View quote
Charles Darwin
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them. View quote
Jane Goodall
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. View quote
Steve Jobs
A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are. (Isabella Rossellini)
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or "mathematics envy." View quote
Marvin Minsky
I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change...The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful. View quote
James Lovelock
Nor does complexity deny the valid simplification which is part of the process of analysis, and even a method of achieving complex architecture itself. View quote
Robert Venturi
I recognize nothing that is not material. In physics, chemistry and biology I see only mechanics. The Universe is nothing but an infinite and complex mechanism. Its complexity is so great that it borders on willfulness, suddenness, and randomness; it gives the illusion of free will possessed by conscious beings. View quote
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky