Top 1200 Napoleon Complex Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!

All you ever want as an actor is to play psychologically complex, interesting characters and Jeremy Bamber is at the very least that.

I adore recipes that make use of one cut of meat or a whole animal to create a complex dish, loaded with flavour.

It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he said that if his night-cap knew what was in his head he would throw it into the fire. That kind of secrecy was practicable in Frederick's time when his whole army was kept closely about him; but when maneuvers of the vastness of Napoleon's are executed, and war is waged as in our day, what concert of action can be expected from generals who are utterly ignorant of what is going on around them?

In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.

Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.

And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival.

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.

When 'Raazi' released, I think I was ready to embrace complex roles and some challenging characters with responsibility and restraint.

I learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter in the universe.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.

I feel very blessed to have been involved with some of the most complex surgical procedures in the history of the world.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

I learned to think about religion, race and sex through the complex and often unattractive medium of jokes.

In an increasingly complex world, we have a simple and bold vision that all children should have the opportunity to grow up healthy.

If you're just making people laugh, that can be one-dimensional. You have to bring something artistic into it, so it's working on another plane or is more complex.

When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

In terms of 'Ray Donovan,' the story is so rich, the actors are so fantastic, the writing is impeccable. And it's such beautiful storytelling with complex characters.

My mom didn't teach me about Marco Polo. She didn't teach me about Napoleon. She didn't teach me about any of that. But she did teach me how to survive and to be a good person. And you need to be a strong woman to do that. She's the biggest person in my life. She's my Virgin Maria. That's why I love religion so much.

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.

I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let's just get out of this mess.

Facing ultimate destruction and the end of the world, human society will undergo extreme, complex, and profound transformations.

Brexit is an immensely complex national challenge encompassing issues from sovereignty and trade to security in an increasingly interdependent world.

I'm sometimes surprised by myself: no matter how much time has passed, I wasn't able to accept my inferiority complex. But I did.

Both 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' and my first novel, 'This One is Mine,' are pretty complex on a story level, and fun reads as a result.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem-solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.

The scourge of unlawful robocalls is technically complex to address, and no single action will get the job done.

I deal with more complex rhythmical patterns than a regular tap dancer. I even think in rhythms.

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

It's a pretty widely-accepted notion that the atmosphere is a ridiculously complex system, and the best we can do with our models is a rough approximation.

It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C, so you don't.

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.

I enjoy taking on complex, difficult characters and have always striven to capture the truth of those people, whether or not it's popular.

It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other.

Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.