Top 1200 Simple And Complex Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple.

A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.

Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Things that are ultimately complex must have a simple end user experience if they are to be successful.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Disraeli was my favourite Tory. He was an adventurer pure and simple, or impure and complex. I'm glad to say Gladstone got the better of him.

I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

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

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.

Every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple.

Ideas in art may be quite evident, and sometimes they're hidden. Sometimes they're simple, and sometimes they're quite complex. Great works of art can be based on very simple ideas, but it's all in the making, isn't it? It's in the facture.

Regular and simple life is the life of God; the chaotic and the complex one is the Devil's!

It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

Phenomena complex-laws simple....Know what to leave out.

Sprinkling drops of lavender and clary-sage oil into a bath is a totally simple yet complex pleasure.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

Life is weird and complex but very simple at the same time. It's all about perception.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.

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

The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea.

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.

Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world.

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation.

Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

I became hooked on 'In Treatment,' which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity.

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.

To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

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

There is nothing more beautiful than living a simple life in this complex universe!

Jefferson, Madison and many others taught that complex laws and codes were sure signs of oppression. They agreed with Montesquieu, Lock and Hume and that laws must be simple....and indeed that the entire legal code must be simple enough that every citizen knows the entire law. If a person doesn't know the law....he shouldn't be held liable for breaking it or freedom is greatly reduced.

Sometimes I feel people try to be too complex. Some of the greatest songs are so simple. The simplest phrases.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.

Life is simple yet complex, in the complexity we realize everything is simple for we create our own happiness, our own sadness & our own destiny by not making a choice you have chosen so face life with courage and faith in yourself.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination