Top 1200 Simple And Complex Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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.

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is why you think that to build a place like this is simple. Hammond: It was simple. Malcolm: Then why did it go wrong?

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

Consciousness, like a complex system of software, has thousands of levels of nested, self-accessing subroutines

The mood of the country is set by its leaders and they are failing us by not setting a compassionate moral tone in a complex time.

Economic crimes are complex in nature, difficult to untangle, and they must be investigated according to the procedures set by the law.

Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.

Part of the brilliance of Stieg Larsson's books is that they are so complex, so many different facets coming together.

I had an enormous complex about my looks. I thought I was ugly and I was afraid nobody would marry me.

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

Can you make fancy patterns of water that actually have some computation power? I'm betting that fluids are complex enough to do this.

I'll get rid of the drug problem. The first drug dealer will be publicly executed in front of everybody and all of the sudden the rest of the drug dealers are going to go "Uh oh!" Watch how fast the drug problem disappears. If you use drugs, you're addicted and you steal something, you'll get sent off to the outback and to work camps and all of the sudden no drug addicts. See how simple that is? So simple.

It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

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

Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.

You have to test your hypothesis against other theories. Certainty in the face of complex situations is very dangerous.

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

I think I gave Alec a complex about what kind of fighter he was, just because he wanted to live.

The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides.

In this complex world, we all need God's Divine wisdom and guidance more than we ever have before.

I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.

A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.

Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching, should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors, then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.

Nah, I don't really have to spit nothin' too complex, I just rep for my hood, and it sound correct.

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

There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds [...]. The improbability may henceforth be taken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavage between all that is masculine on the one side and all that is feminine on the other; or that any living being is so simple in this respect that it can be put wholly on one side, or wholly on the other, of the line.

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

One of the principal achievements of physics in the 20th century has been the revelation that the atom is not indivisible or elementary at all but has a complex structure.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.

Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.

Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.

A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted.

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?

The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

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

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

The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

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.

I have been a policymaker proven in tackling some very complex social issues on the municipal level here in Boston.

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

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

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

We have to understand that India is a complex country. Everything takes time for the real impact to get translated to the economy.

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