People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. — Thor Heyerdahl
To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify. — Bruno Munari
Trouble comes not because we have taken any wrong step but because we are in a complex and contradictory world. — T. B. Joshua
To simplify complications is the first essential of success. — George Earle Buckle
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. — J. K. Rowling
Problems are the price you pay for progress. — Branch Rickey
Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration. — Ray Ozzie
Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications. — T. S. Eliot
All the great things in life come with some kind of problem attached. — Danish Proverbs
nonlinear interactions almost always make the behavior of the aggregate more complicated than would be predicted by summing or averaging. — John Henry Holland
If anyone tries to complicate your life, turn and walk away from them. — Caroline Myss
Solving with ‘more’ means more complexity, more costs, more responsibilities, and typically more expenses. — Paul Jarvis
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. — Norman Vincent Peale
The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. — Alice Munro
To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. — Alice Paul
It's not complicated. Just love the one in front of you. — Heidi Baker
Don't you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. — Bob Marley
Love isn't complicated, people are. — Rihanna
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. — Julia Child
Complication Image Quotes
In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody — Paul Keres
Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated
Love Complicated Quotes
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. — Stephen Greenblatt
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them. — Bill Russell
It’s a form of human love to accept our complicated, messy humanity and not run away from it. — Martha C. Nussbaum
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all. — Tori Spelling
I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you. — Graeme Simsion
I think of my life as a series of moments and I've found that the great moments often don't have too much to them. They're not huge, complicated events; they're just magical wee moments when somebody says 'I love you' or 'You're a really good at what you do' or simply 'You're a good person'. — Billy Connolly
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you. — Rick Riordan
I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated. — David Duchovny
Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama
If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon? — Margaret Atwood
Relationship Complications Quotes
Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues. — Doreen Virtue
A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life. — J. August Strindberg
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.
Baby I'll never forget none of that. Girl I told you I was comin back. — Drake
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
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
Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.
Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated — James W. Pennebaker
The gods never let us love and be wise at the same time. — Publilius Syrus
It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it's also among the most complicated. — Deborah Tannen
It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word. — Arundhati Roy
Apple Watch Quotes
For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new. — Alexander Fleming
When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the Golden Globes and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors doeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech. — Lea Michele
So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius. — Ellen DeGeneres
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy, Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
I’m not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity. — Jean-Claude Biver
I wasn't allowed to watch MTV before school, but somehow I managed to, when I was five or six and Fiona Apple's video for "Criminal" came on. She was so odd and dark, and I immediately felt some kind of connection with her. She was also the first person I admired for their looks. — Sky Ferreira
The difference between the TAG Heuer watch and the Apple Watch is very important. That one is called Apple and this one is called TAG Heuer. — Jean-Claude Biver
Life is easy, we just insist on making it complicated
And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie. — W. H. Auden
Apple Watch is the most personal device we've ever created. — Tim Cook
We should be thanking Apple for launching the $10,000 'apple watch' as the new gold standard in douchebag detection. — Anna Kendrick
Hillary Clinton could use one of these Apple Watches. She could hook it up to her secret email account. If you want to contact Hillary, she's at hillary@pantsuit.com. — David Letterman
Imp Quotes
I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath. — George Carlin
Don’t call me Lord Snow.” The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. “Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut you and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore. — George R. R. Martin
Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers. — Amos Bronson Alcott
It's simple until you make it complicated
Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business. — James Madison
The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps. — Martin Luther
What a pleasure to have children in Heaven and to watch them grow and develop without the Devil and all his imps around and without sin and the Curse and all the pain, sorrow and crying! It will be pure pleasure to have children in Heaven! — David Berg
Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous. — William Mcfee
I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special. — Mo Rocca
The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one. — Hilary Mantel
Complicated Life Quotes
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person. — Shimon Peres
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. — John Von Neumann
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates. — Ben Feldman
I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale. — Rachel McAdams
Children are the bearers of life in its simplest and most joyous form. Children are color-blind and still free of all the complications, greed, and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them through life. — Keith Haring
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever. — Alan Watts
At every moment of his life the Shoshone must be careful to observe the complicated folkways of his group, to do reverence to superhuman powers, to remember the courtesies and obligations of family, to pay homage to certain sacred plants, or to avoid particular places. — Peter Farb
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process. — Arian Foster
Not Complicated Quotes
Do not be tempted to invest in a sample of each golfing invention as soon as it makes its appearance. If you do, you will only complicate and spoil your game - and encumber your locker with useless rubbish. — Harry Vardon
That’s what science is, that whole complicated story about how the particles are moving faster. It’s not about trends and predictions; it’s about explanations. — Naval Ravikant
Getting overly caught up in such minute details leads to burnout. And burnout always leads back to old habits. The name of the game is sustainability. And simply put, if it's too complicated, it's not sustainable. And if it's not sustainable, what's the point? — Rich Roll
One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones. — Bruce Lee
Karma is not something complicated or philosophical. Karma means watching your body, watching your mouth, and watching your mind. Trying to keep these three doors as pure as possible is the practice of karma. — Thubten Yeshe
Help each other to live and to grow in the Christian faith so as to be valiant witnesses of the Lord. Be united, but not closed. Be humble, but not fearful. Be simple, but not naive. Be thoughtful, but not complicated. Enter into dialogue with others, but be yourselves. — Pope Benedict XVI
Sometimes the more you think, the less you do. Sometimes the less you think, the more you do. Simplify. It's not that complicated. — Patrick Bet-David
Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'. — Linus Torvalds
If your version of pub food is microwaving a pie and some baked beans, then yeah, it's really complicated cooking. But if it's just about getting the best out of simple ingredients, then it's not. — Tom Kerridge
Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing. — Mickey Mantle
Life Is Complicated Quotes
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. — A. N. Wilson
Life is as simple or complicated as we make it. — Donna Smallin
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life. — Abbas Kiarostami
Life is just too short, too unpredictable and too complicated. Be happy no matter what, a smile sometimes is all you need — Shahid Kapoor
People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple. — George Carlin
In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing. — Elena Ferrante
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. — Charles A. Lindbergh
Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. — Jhumpa Lahiri
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it. — Charles Lindbergh
Life Is Complicate Quotes
The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer. — Raymond Loewy
Life is hard and astonishingly complicated.... No one great reform will make it easy. Most of us who work -- or want to work -- will always have trouble or discontent. So we must learn to be calm, and train all our faculties, and make others happy. — Sinclair Lewis
Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated. — Jack White
There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. — A. N. Wilson
It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time. — Guillaume Musso
High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship. — Mahatma Gandhi
Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do. — Adrian Tan
The equation of animal and vegetable life is too complicated a problem for human intelligence to solve, and we can never know how wide a circle of disturbance we produce in the harmonies of nature when we throw the smallest pebble into the ocean of organic life. — George Perkins Marsh
What I really learned was that life is a gift and our only purpose is to be who we are. We all make it so complicated, and try to find our purpose, I learned that all I have to do is be as me as I can be. — Anita Moorjani
Complicated Things Quotes
People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that. — Chris Elliott
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. — Jean Cocteau
Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple. — Richard Branson
To do things that are as complicated and challenging as spaceflight, you have to have all disciplines represented to get the job done. — Christina Koch
When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme. — Ron Ben-Israel
Give thanks to God, who made necessary things simple, and complicated things unnecessary. — Gregory Skovoroda
It’s the mark of a charlatan to try and explain simple things in complex ways and it’s the mark of a genius to explain complicated things in simple ways. — Naval Ravikant
One of the things people don't say enough about free speech is 'Yes, it causes harm but the harm is worth it.' And we don't make that argument because it's too honest and complicated and unpleasant. — Konstantin Kisin
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question? — Enrico Bombieri
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. — Seth Lloyd
Complicated World Quotes
It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence. — Allan Sandage
Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders. — Tim Kaine
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. — Pau (Pablo) Casals
The humanities prepare students to be good citizens and help them understand a complicated, interlocking world. The humanities teach us critical thinking, how to analyze arguments, and how to imagine life from the point of view of someone unlike yourself. — Martha C. Nussbaum
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation. — Andrew Young
The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions. — Marjane Satrapi
The whole reason I make these pictures is for those moments of clarity. For that single moment, everything seems to make sense in my world. And I think we all look for that in our lives, because our lives are generally filled with chaos and confusion and disorder and complication. — Gregory Crewdson
Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us. — Steve Jobs
Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His. — Charles R. Swindoll
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world. — Arundhati Roy
Its Complicated Quotes
To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it. — Soren Kierkegaard
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma — Desmond Tutu
My dad was a complicated man. He was a huge racist, my dad, but he still tried to be a good father, you know? Like, he would tell me that Santa Claus was black - that way, when I found out he didn't exist, it wouldn't be that big a let down. — Anthony Jeselnik
I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress. — Wen Ho Lee
The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect. — Richard Neal
We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated. — Brad Bird
Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning. — Maria Cantwell
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us. — Francis Crick
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it. — Sylvia Boorstein
Taking your first title is much more complicated and more difficult; it takes years of work - from go-kart to Formula One. The second comes more easily, because you've already got the experience. — Niki Lauda
Compound Quotes
Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest. — Warren Buffett
Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first. — Meyer Lansky
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. — Albert Einstein
A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole. — Frank Zappa
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided. — Philipus A. Paracelsus
We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds. — August Kekule
When we repeat 1 percent errors, day after day, by replicating poor decisions, duplicating tiny mistakes, and rationalizing little excuses, our small choices compound into toxic results. — James Clear
Multi-tasking is like balancing spinning plates. Sure, it sounds exciting but you’ll never unlock the compounding effects of narrowly focused attention. — Alex Hormozi
All the benefits in life come from compound interest — money, relationships, habits — anything of importance. — Naval Ravikant
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. — Alice Paul
How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won't amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become. — Haim Ginott
Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser. — Che Guevara
Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego. More than your money. More than your desires...More than your sleep at dawn. Love God more than anything else, and submission comes natural.
Love God more than anything else, and all goodness will follow. — Yasmin Mogahed
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe. — Michio Kaku
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers. — Merlin Olsen
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something. — Gamal Abdel Nasser
Transgender medicine increases psychiatric burden of disease, creates side effects on steroids, inflicts surgical complications and sterility, and raises mortality from all causes. Transgender Medicine equals Bad Medicine. No ethical doctor, nurse, or assistant should do this! — Peter A. McCullough
Making the simple complicated is commonplace, Charles Mingus once said. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. — Rick Rubin
For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks. — James David Vance
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
I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me. — Helmut Newton
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