A Quote by John Barth

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

John Barth

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John Barth
American - Writer
Born: May 27, 1930

What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

Klaus Nomi

I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.

David Levithan

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

Alexandra Potter

I really believe life is simple. It's all the other people that make things complicated.

Richard M. Nixon

If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.

Ivar Giaever

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

Muhammad Yunus

[…] but I believe that things are extremely complicated, and her looking over me was as complicated as anything could ever be. But it was also incredibly simple.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

Richard Branson

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

John C. Maxwell

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

Jean Cocteau

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

David Levithan

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

Terry Pratchett

Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal with them... But it's a complicated matter: Science studies what's at the edge of understanding, and what's at the edge of understanding is usually fairly simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too complicated.

Noam Chomsky

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

My routine is very simple because I realised that the more complicated the exercise sessions are, the less likely I am to make it for them. They have to be simple and doable in my daily routine.

Sonali Bendre

I like things that are never one way. Usually, emotionally, I make the films based on a type of energy. I try to work with things that are more difficult to articulate. And so, that's more of a feeling. And so, the things that have attracted me are more of the things that are morally complicated or emotionally complicated.

Harmony Korine

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