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• The complex develops out of the simple.

  Colin Wilson

  Simple

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• I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

  Avi

  Book, Writing, Adventure

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• The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.

  Kevin Kelly

  Technology, Diversity, Mind

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• Not acknowledging that beauty is complex-that's the problem. I enjoy making it complex for people, because that's my world.

  Fred Wilson

  People, World, Problem

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• The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

  Adam Smith

  Artist, Principles, Machines

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master”, p.460, VM eBooks

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• In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

  James Thurber

  Reading, Book, Expression

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• For a master, the rewards gained along the way are fine, but they are not the main reason for the journey. Ultimately the master and the master's path are one. And if the traveler is fortunate - that is, if the path is complex and profound enough - the destination is two miles farther away for every mile he or she travels.

  George Leonard

  Journey, Two, Profound

  George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

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• The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.

  George Leonard

  Numbers, Humanity, Different

  George Leonard (2009). “The Silent Pulse”, p.23, Gibbs Smith

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• The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

  Adam Ant

  Heart, Brain, Transplants

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• I think the time is right for yoga, we really are living in a very complex time - a time of great turmoil and change. Yoga is a good antidote to all that...It is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

  Sting

  Yoga, Thinking, Way

  "Yoga Rock 'n' Roll". "Yoga Journal", No. 125, (p. 4), December 1995.

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• Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Deceitful

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.

  George Leonard

  Order, Long, Scarcity

  George Leonard (2009). “The Silent Pulse”, p.139, Gibbs Smith

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• Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

  Kevin Kelly

  Literature

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• The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

  Kevin Kelly

  Simple, Way, Literature

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• My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.

  Andre Dubus

  Dream, Writing, Black And White

  Source: thekingsenglish.wordpress.com

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• In a certain sense, these were lessons I learned by playing with Indian musicians. The rhythmic forms that they use are very complex, and very challenging. In order to play in fifteen, or eleven, or seven or even five, you have to have mastered that time in order to be able to be free with the music.

  John McLaughlin

  Order, Play, Challenges

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• What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is very complex. It reaches all the complexities of our life on this Earth. Peace - that's a very complex idea, peace, so we can't get it as human beings.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Ideas, Earth, Said

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is a lot of interesting product coming to market already. Bags and bottles and cups and such made of potato starch and other fully biodegradable materials. In some sense, plastic is more chemically complex. We ought to be able to simplify.

  Edward Norton

  Interesting, Bags, Bottles

  "Earth Chats: Edward Norton". The Washington Post Live Chat, www.slate.com. April 22, 2008.

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• Napoleon was one of the most complex personalities in history.He was ruthless, small in stature, a bully, vulnerable, unfaithful and I think he was the first person to shoot prisoners of war so that he had food for his own army. He was absolutely single-minded but he also obviously had charm. How else could a man like him have come back as he did and have the nation rise to a man!

  David Suchet

  War, Army, Men

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It just sort of suggested a very specific kind of impudence like this little-man syndrome. Chucky has this Napoleon complex. He's a little guy with a lot of rage and that really pointed us in the direction of exploiting that aspect of his character, which people always seem to enjoy.

  David Kirschner

  Character, Men, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You've got this world, these pathologists that are, day in and day out, taking apart bodies, coming up with theories about how they died and how to better serve the community. At the same time these people have lives outside and families and my character in particular, he has a fiance and things are going well for him, so you've got to show that nice warm compassionate side at the same time you've got to show the steely, icy cool of a doctor. Not only that, but a doctor who gets a bit of a God complex and starts killing people for sport.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Sports, Nice, Character

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Everyone has complexes about their body or their ability and skills and dream of a rebirth into something different. I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do that through my movies. My desires become reality in the movie because it can't become real in real life.

  Takashi Miike

  Dream, Revenge, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're on the set, and sometimes, because it's been so complex and the writers have been really writing, sometimes up until the last minute... And you kind of sit back; you separate yourself from your brain, and you say, let me see if you can do this. And that's the kind of challenge I like.

  Glenn Close

  Writing, Challenges, Brain

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• My dad kept me away from people who treat children wrong. It's just amazing that there is such a way to raise a person without giving them complexes. But nobody does it. They think it should be the old school. But look at the products. Wouldn't it be great if you could avoid the complexes? Then you could deal with the complexes of life.

  Juliette Lewis

  Children, Dad, School

  "New Again: Juliette Lewis". Interview with Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• But look at Avatar (2009), one of the most globally viewed pieces of entertainment to have ever been made - the central emotional event of the whole movie was a tree being cut down. And the entire movie, essentially, is saying, "If we let the military industrial complex trash the place that we're living in, we will have committed an epic crime."

  Edward Norton

  Military, Cutting, Epic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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