Complex Quotes - page 7

Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about. (P. J. O'Rourke)
Human beings and plants have co-evolved for millions of years, so it makes perfect sense that our complex bodies would be adapted to absorb needed, beneficial compounds from complex plants and ignore the rest. View quote
Andrew Weil
The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health. View quote
Andrew Weil
Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging. View quote
Andrew Weil
The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex. View quote
Roberto Assagioli
Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge. View quote
Robert James Waller
You were beautiful and heartless...in some ways rather a bore. But you have grown up into another over-refined soul of the sort our aristocracy is so good at producing and which produces so little itself save ways to spend unconscionable amounts on castles, clothes, and complex towers to keep comfortable impossible beasts. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying. View quote
Sophia Bush
The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once. View quote
Susan Wiggs
Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy. View quote
Tim Harford
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku. (Thom Mayne)
Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far. View quote
William Landay
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability. View quote
Helen Fisher
The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex. View quote
Adam Ant
We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in. View quote
Gabrielle Union
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time. View quote
Dan Ariely
Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature's fearful symmetry just as Nature intended. They should be respected and revered, but perhaps none more so than the elephant, the world's most emotionally human land mammal. View quote
Daphne Sheldrick
We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, modern human society represents one of the most complex things we know. View quote
David Christian
Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee. (J.R. Ward)
I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are mysterious and complex no matter what they do, and no matter how hard they try to reveal their own mystery. View quote
Jennifer Egan
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people. View quote
Don Tapscott
Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less about them. No one person can understand everything going on in an iPhone, much less pervasive systems. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff