Complexes Quotes - Page 13

• Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Adults, Needs

  Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

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• One of our needs in a very complex society, where we encounter more people every day than probably our ancestors encountered over their whole lifetime, is our need to very rapidly evaluate other people. And one of the most potent ways of doing that is through our automobiles. So, a car isn't just a thing. It's a set of symbols and associations that we have to figure out in order to understand how we navigate our social worlds with that car.

  Paul Solman

  Order, Car, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

  Albert Bandura

  Development, May, Self Efficacy

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• As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of complex activities requiring intricate organization of behavior

  Albert Bandura

  Skills, Organization, Deployment

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.

  James Hollis

  Consciousness, Individuation, Personhood

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.116, Inner City Books

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• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Everyday, Tools, World

  Rolling Stone Interview, genius.com.

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• Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

  Joan Didion

  Simple, Thinking, Pieces

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• Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

  Julia Alvarez

  Literature, Contradictory, Humans

  Source: ncac.org

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• 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.

  Jennifer Egan

  People, Important, Trying

  "Jennifer Egan’s Novel Approach". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. May 27, 2010.

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• Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

  Eric Kandel

  Perspective, Way, Dimensions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex and challenging and I love it. I'm sort of a glutton for work and to direct something that I'm acting in feeds the vein.

  Jason Bateman

  Challenges, Acting, Directors

  "Toronto: Jason Bateman on Talks Directing Himself in ‘The Family Fang’" by Kathy A. Mcdonald, variety.com. September 11, 2015.

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• The dichotomies, the brokenness of the culture around things like the Vietnam war, and then a lot of it has to do with war and where we put our energy and money and attention. And the military industrial complex, which dominates our whole economy. Even with the vision of democracy in other places we know the dark side.

  Anne Waldman

  War, Military, Dark

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Basically, for any complex to be sustainable needs to have a balance between two factors: resilience and efficiency. These two factors can be calculated from the structure of the network that is involved in a complex system. A resilient, efficient system needs to be diverse and interconnected. On the other hand, diversity and interconnectivity decrease efficiency. Therefore, the key is an appropriate balance between efficiency and resilience.

  Bernard Lietaer

  Keys, Hands, Two

  Interview with Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, www.greenamerica.org. 2009.

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• There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Flower, Butterfly, Simple

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• The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Hands, People

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• Being an effective leader is enormously complex. It requires vision to see a future, dedication to make things happen, sensitivity to people who are quirky at times, and personal confidence without arrogance.

  Dave Ulrich

  Dedication, People, Leader

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• As humans, no matter our level of understanding, we are very complex beings with very complex thoughts. There are ideas that each of us have within our heads that are so different from each other it is mind boggling.

  Matthew Carter

  Ideas, Understanding, Mind

  Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com

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• The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work that is as transparent and simple as possible. No matter how much I strip away the result is always more complex to me than I expect.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Simple, Ease, Matter

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• You never want to be the worst bowler of the group-because then everyone treats you like you have cancer. "You can do it! We're praying for you." The advice starts. "Use a heavier ball." "Keep your arm straight." "You should get a vasectomy." If you're really bad at bowling like me, they'll ask if want the bumpers up. Not that bowling is that complex anyway. "You want the bumpers? We can get rid of the pins. Why don't you take this coloring book and sit in the corner?"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Cancer, Book

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• I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say aloud.

  Jillian Medoff

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.

  Flemming Rose

  Growing Up, People, Being Different

  Source: theundercurrent.org

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• People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.

  Mario Van Peebles

  Reality, Axes, People

  Source: www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk

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• You can have lots of feelings and have the same feelings over and over again. It isn't the recognizable feelings that make so much difference. It is sensing the edge, the unclear, what you don't recognize, but it is there, the bodily discomfort that the problem makes, which has meaning; it has its own peculiar quality, implicity, it is complex, it has in it everything that relates to that problem, but not in a way you can say.

  Eugene Gendlin

  Differences, Feelings, Making A Difference

  Source: www.focusing.org

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• I think we're insecure about our self-imposed spot at the top of the pyramid of life. New studies are continually undermining our superiority complex and forcing us to reconsider our relationship to animals.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Insecure, Thinking, Animal

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• I'm not really caught up with celebrity women. I think a regular girl that goes to school or works at a Complex or Spin or Blender or whatever, one of those magazines. She'd probably be flyer to me than the person she's writing about.

  Wale

  Girl, Writing, School

  Source: www.complex.com

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