“ A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ Any 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. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ 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. - E. F. Schumacher. ”
- E. F. Schumacher- Copy
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“ People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. ”
- Vince Lombardi- Copy
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“ For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. ”
- Remy de Gourmont- Copy
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“ Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die. ”
- Gil Stern- Copy
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“ A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear — fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him. ”
- Jean Paul Sartre- Copy
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“ In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else. ”
- John B. Keane- Copy
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“ The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it. ”
- Vannevar Bush- Copy
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“ The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things. ”
- Norman O. Brown- Copy
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“ Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex.... It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being. ”
- James G. Frazer- Copy
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“ Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow. ”
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi- Copy
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“ The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. ”
- Gustav Mahler- Copy
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“ I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well. ”
- David Cronenberg- Copy
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“ It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ 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 problems to manageable proportions. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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“ You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them… ”
- Vaclav Havel- Copy
- 3.8K
“ In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world. ”
- Orson Scott Card- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I think a lot of players from the USA could come to the premiership. They started there with a blank piece of paper, and have got it right. They have more kids playing Soccer, as they call it over there, than any other sport, but the major league soccer, will find it hard to compete with the likes of American Football, Basketball and Baseball. ”
- Richard Gough- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The complexity of our economy is such, and the way liquidity flows through the system is such, that you essentially get very complex differences in the way monetary policy plays out,... But, at the end of the day, it does seem to be effective. ”
- Alan Greenspan- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character. ”
- Stephen R. Covey- Copy
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“ A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism. ”
- Fred Friendly- Copy
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