Complicated Quotes - Page 22

• Women are complicated...not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Crazy, People, Happens

  "A teen just trying to figure it out". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Acceptance, Mindfulness, Clinging

  Sylvia Boorstein (1995). “It's easier than you think: the Buddhist way to happiness”, HarperOne

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• If life is no fun, it is because you are no fun. Your life is always a reflection of who you are... Try this: Stop taking things, including yourself, so seriously. Life is not as complicated as you have made it out to be.

  Larry Winget

  Fun, Reflection, Trying

  Larry Winget (2009). “No Time for Tact: 365 Days of the Wit, Words, and Wisdom of Larry Winget”, Penguin

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• I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.

  Diane Wakoski

  Dream, Flower, Helping

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• I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious.

  Amy Poehler

  Real, Tired, Talking

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.82, Pan Macmillan

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• It makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping their clients off I don’t know of any illegal behavior, but will people push the envelope and pitch lucrative and complicated products to clients even if they are not the simplest investments or the ones most directly aligned with the client’s goals? Absolutely. Every day, in fact.

  Greg Smith

  Goal, People, Envelopes

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• Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Art, Self

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• Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reality, Odd, Obvious

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.48, HarperCollins UK

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• Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Growing Up, Firsts

  W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

  Matt Ridley

  Falling In Love, People, Failing

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• Not long ago it was easy to tell who the bad guys were. They carried Kalashnikovs. Now it is much more complicated, but one thing is sure - any man who covers his face and packs a gun is a legitimate target for any decent citizen.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Men, Long Ago

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• Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their attention. Neither should we hesitate to bring the simplest requests confidently to the Father.

  Richard J. Foster

  Children, Father, Parent

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

  Margaret MacMillan

  Feel Good, Generations, Affair

  Margaret MacMillan (2010). “The Uses and Abuses of History”, p.127, Profile Books

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• The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what’s simple on the surface and turning it over to show us the complicated writhing mess beneath. It’s like seeing the worlds of Narnia and Harry Potter through a 3-D magnifying glass.

  Naomi Novik

  Simple, Glasses, Magic

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• Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.

  Karen Miller

  Simple

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• Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe.

  Donald Curtis

  Fall, Simple, Simplicity

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• Most people are great at absorbing information. Guerrilla marketing is needed because it gives small businesses a delightfully unfair advantage: certainty in an uncertain world, economy in a high-priced world, simplicity in a complicated world, marketing awareness in a clueless world.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Clueless, Complicated World, People

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• Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

  Miuccia Prada

  Nostalgia, Refuse, Subjects

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Beautiful, People

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• Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.

  Arthur Keith

  Country, Fall, Civilization

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those "others". Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Country, Strong, Two

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• Everybody knows how complicated this country's relationship with France has been, in war and in peace. Certainly there have been times when the leaders of France could have done better by us. We should have done better by them on Sunday. Only you couldn't find us.

  Kimberley Strassel

  Country, War, Sunday

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• To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one in which a condition or event is not either good or bad but is, rather, both good and bad, not sequentially, but simultaneously.

  Nancy Mairs

  Pain, Blessed, Views

  Nancy Mairs (1991). “Carnal Acts: Essays”, Perennial

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• Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on the other hand, study them with the care and attention to detail one might give to a difficult scientific paper or a complicated poem.

  Howard S. Becker

  Hands, Giving, Details

  Creative Camera, №№ 163 - 174, 1978.

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• The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Life, Situation, Complexity

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Four: Journey without Goal; The Lion's Roar; The Dawn of Tantra; An Interview with Cho gyam Trungpa”, p.415, Shambhala Publications

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