Complex Quotes
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“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
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“Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:
1. Acceptance
2. Understanding
3. Appreciation
Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.
Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?
So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
1. Acceptance
2. Understanding
3. Appreciation
Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.
Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?
So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“Orion brightened. "I have an idea."
"Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained.
"Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other.”
― The Atlantis Complex
"Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained.
"Why don't we look for some magic stones that can grant wishes? Or, if that doesn't work, you could search my naked body for some mysterious birthmark that means I am actually the prince of somewhere or other.”
― The Atlantis Complex
“I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”
― Rocket Boys
― Rocket Boys
“The television set then came after her, chomping its teeth. Upon reaching the living room, the television succeeded at eating her body bit-by-bit: first the legs, then the body, and finally her flailing arms.”
― The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
― The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
“By the dawn of the seventeenth century, the order of Stormsongs had grown both darker and more powerful, while the Holy Roman Empire they allegedly still served found itself surrounded by powerful enemies – and on the brink of collapse.”
― Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
― Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
“There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.”
― Iron Hearted Violet
― Iron Hearted Violet
“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.”
― The Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, 11/1919
― The Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, 11/1919
“After the front legs emerged, what looked like a quartered and bloodied cut of steak followed. This piece of steak had rich and dark fur, wet with the mare’s internal membranes that covered the whole body, but it did not have the look of a horse at all. And yet from the steak’s center came this pulsating heartbeat, as though its pace-setting qualities tried in vain to pull away or escape from its thoroughbred side.”
― The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
― The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
“She is the kind and friendly sort, but I’m an old man at this point, so it would be useless and somewhat illegal if I asked her out.”
― The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
― The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
“Once inside my skull, my doctor added some salt, just to taste. He also poured some fruit into my skull – an apple, a pear, a few seedless grapes, and a ripe banana. He then used an electric blender set on its highest speed to create what he had termed ‘a yogurt parfait.’ After he finished blending the ingredients, he beckoned the other doctors and a few of the nurses to sample his new concoction.”
― The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
― The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction
“When Dani was about 1,000 feet above the ground, her direction changed from vertical to horizontal. She sped east at high speed. She estimated her speed to be many hundreds of kilometers per hour. As she thought about it, if she was going to make this trip in one hour, her speed would have to be about the speed of a jet airline. Yet she felt no wind, nor cold, whatsoever.”
― Time Chain
― Time Chain
“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to answer the call of individuation. We must turn away from the cacaphony of the outerworld to hear the inner voice. When we can dare to live its promptings, then we achieve personhood. We may become strangers to those who thought they knew us, but at least we are no longer strangers to ourselves.”
― The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife
― The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife
“No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.”
― On the Gods and Other Essays
― On the Gods and Other Essays
“Trust me Dani. You don’t want’a miss this. I’m not exaggeratin’ when I say the journey of a lifetime, of a hundred lifetimes, is just below us!”
― Time Chain
― Time Chain
“Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.”
― Relentless
― Relentless
“When the light reached its zenith, the group of 1,000 Travelers down below could no longer be seen. Suddenly, the intense light ceased to be, returning the lighting of the stadium to a normal level. Dani felt a moment of disorientation, but she soon recovered and looked down at an empty stadium.”
― Time Chain
― Time Chain
“Perhaps you are right, sister. Perhaps it is time we all calmed down a little and started to tell each other the truth.” Šarlatová paused to look at the faces of everyone assembled in the room and added, “But it is going to take a while….a long while.”
― Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
― Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
“Smartass Disciple: Why do arrogant people like to say complex words ?
Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You'll get a simple scary version.”
― Master of Stupidity
Master of Stupidity: Ask them straight! You'll get a simple scary version.”
― Master of Stupidity
“What happens to one of us happens to all of us.”
― Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
― Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy
“The anchor symbolizes clarity and courage during chaos and confusion,” my Grand-mere says. “Chaos and Confusion, aren’t those your cats names?” Now I know her story is a delusion.”
― Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
― Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
“Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”
― Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
― Champagne Widows: First Woman of Champagne, Veuve Clicquot
“Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.”
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“Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.”
― Illness Defined; The Theorem
― Illness Defined; The Theorem
“Anyone who wants to be understood will never know the delight of being
understood, because this happens only to the complex and misunderstood;simple souls, the ones whom other people can understand, never feel a desire to be understood.”
― The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
understood, because this happens only to the complex and misunderstood;simple souls, the ones whom other people can understand, never feel a desire to be understood.”
― The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“Life can be spent in an atmosphere of continuous encouragement, you will ignore the complex and it will disappear”
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