Complication Quotes

• I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Crystals, Calm, Quiet

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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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• I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

  Henry James

  Hate, Names, Usa

  Henry James (1974). “Letters”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

  Anthony Edwards

  Perfect, Gains, Kind

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• I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Creativity, Imagination, Innovation

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.4, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

  Paul Farmer

  Challenges, Different, Hiv

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• It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, People, Parent

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• Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

  Maya Lin

  Parent, Chinese, Would Be

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• Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

  Thor Heyerdahl

  Simple, Men, Civilization

  "Two-Way Ticket to Paradise', book review of Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva". The New York Times, August 29, 1975.

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• To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

  George Earle Buckle

  Success, Writing, Plain And Simple

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• There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

  Judith McNaught

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Judith McNaught (2003). “Remember When”

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• If anyone tries to complicate your life, turn and walk away from them.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Bad Relationship, Positivity

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• Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else.

  Judith McNaught

  Instinct

  Judith McNaught (1997). “Remember When”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

  Thomas More

  Change, Fall, Disease

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.44, Bibliolis Books

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• Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Memories, Ordinary, Connections

  Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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• Extreme complication is contrary to art.

  Claude Debussy

  Art, Extremes, Contrary

  "French Music: From the Death of Berlioz to the Death of Fauré". Book by Martin Cooper (p. 136), 1951; later quoted in "Debussy and Wagner", book by Robin Holloway (p. 207), 1979.

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• Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

  Edward Tufte

  Simple, Confusion, Simplicity

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

  Charles Mingus

  Creativity, Simple, Plain Language

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• Life is one big road with lots of signs,
  So when you riding through the ruts,
  Don't you complicate your mind
  Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy
  Don't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Song: 'Wake Up and Live!'". 1979.

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• It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine.  One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted.  Many diseases are related to the spine.

  Hippocrates

  Serious, May, Disease

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• Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

  T. S. Eliot

  Simple, Way, Life Is

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• Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit

  Edith Wharton

  War, Years, People

  Ethan Frome ch. 7 (1911)

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• As you let go of the complications, emotional toxins, and everything else that isn't serving you, you will be free to experience the happiness that exists in simplicity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Emotional, Simplicity

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