Complexes Quotes - Page 24

The slice of time has become enormous in importance, and its hidden meaning is now perfectly plain, though so complex that it can hardly be written down.

Ben Maddow

Enormous, Importance, Hidden Meaning

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[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

Roger Ballen

Artist, Goal, Vision

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I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.

Eugene Richards

Two, Order, Years

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Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... .

Nikola Tesla

Character, Past, Forever

Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.21, Adventures Unlimited Press

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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.

Terence McKenna

Personality, Ego, Problem

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My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.

Dolly Parton

Home, Writing, Nashville

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In this changing, complex and exciting world with exploding expectations, we need to find some common ground. We need people and ideas to turn to bind us, and Mahatma Gandhi with his message of oneness for mankind is one of them.

Hillary Clinton

Ideas, Oneness, People

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The real success story of branding in recent decades has been the way in which companies have used their brands to turn the satisfaction of complex and even spiritual needs into commercial transactions.

Simon Anholt

Spiritual, Real, Needs

Simon Anholt (2006). “Brand New Justice”, p.5, Routledge

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We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

Peter Drucker

Military, Defense, Purpose

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The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.

Charles Colson

College, Average, Years

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Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

Joichi Ito

School, Thinking, People

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Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme.

Herbert Simon

Organization, Decision, Problem

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In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

Dinah Shore

Country, Writing, Important

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It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture.

Jerome Wiesner

Military, United States, Culture

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Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. We all exchange more than words with each other. . . We are made of the same substance as rocks and stars. .. We are an exotic cocktail living on this planet. .. We live in this universe which is a self-transcending reality

Rob Bell

Stars, Reality, Rocks

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I don't like being called a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide with imminent catastrophic global warming there are only predictions based on complex computer models.

David Bellamy

Believe, Facts, Global Warming

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...a vocal minority of scientists so mistrusts the models and the complex fragmentary data, that some claim that global warming is a hoax. They have made public statements accusing other scientists of deliberate fraud in aid of their research funding. Both sides are now hurling personal epithets at each other, a very bad development in Earth sciences.

Joanne Simpson

Data, Research, Development

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We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones, some communist ones, and many where economics are not separated out of the broader fabric of life (such as sharing and gift giving, and mutual support).

Cynthia Kauffman

Mutual Support, Fabric Of Life, Giving

Source: www.counterpunch.org

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

Kirkpatrick Sale

Technology, Survival, Roaming

Source: www.counterpunch.org

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What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s.

Dean Koontz

Thinking, Cells, Adults

"The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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

Dean Koontz

Giving, Answers, Life Is

"The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

Dean Koontz

Interesting, Wake Up, Fiction

"The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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Non-Islamic, non-foreign-motivated terrorist actions have killed at least as many Americans on American soil as those who were promoted by jihadists. But what we have also seen is ISIL evolve, because of the sophistication of their social media, to a point where they may be inspiring more attacks - even if they're self-initiated, even if they don't involve complex planning - than we would have seen some time ago.

Barack Obama

Islamic, Self, Media

"Video And Transcript: NPR's Interview With President Obama". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.

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I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception... but I don't have a superiority complex about me because I'm from New York or because I'm Peruvian/Black. I think some people get caught up in that stuff.

Immortal Technique

Strong, New York, Army

Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.

Rosanne Cash

Book, Piano, Childhood

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