Quotes About Multifaceted

Moe was a triple threat." "He could sing, dance, and act?" She shook her head. "He could speak Armenian, saddle break a stallion, and pass for a female in drag.

Complex problems are often open-ended and poorly defined

Like everything that's any good, it has about twenty different meanings.

There was only one Eye, though it had many projections into spacetime. And it had many functions.

Now I want to say something about words artificially weighted; you can, and frequently must, make a word carry several meanings or messages in your story if you use the word right. This is a kind of shorthand.

There were too many twists & turns to this story, too many oddly shaped pieces to fit into this quilt.

Leaning back in the cab, this amateur bloodhound carolled away like a lark while I mediated upon the many-sidedness of the human mind.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

Life is more than one genre'.

Everything either this or that and oversimplified. But life was much more complicated. Life was much more than this or that, black or white. Life was grayish. "And

Decisions with multiple objectives cannot be resolved by focusing on any one objective.

Las personas somos complicadas. Hay mucho más en nuestro interior de lo que se percibe a simple vista.

A good quant must be a mixture, too—part trader, part salesperson, part programmer, and part mathematician.

The inside of my head is out of control. It is on fire. It is snowing. It is a wild jungle. It is an Arctic wilderness. It is everything that has ever happened and everything that ever will happen, all at once.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

Non ero triste per qualcosa in particolare, piangevo per tante cose insieme.

Scanners can't choose one direction. It's like telling a parent to choose one child to feed. It's just not possible. A parent knows she has to feed all her children. And a Scanner must find a way to follow every path that interests her.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

I'm a complicated man, with complicated taste buds.

I have never been stereotyped in one kind of character. I have been a part of reality shows, events, singing and dancing. No one has ever told me, 'She will fit only in this character or this look.' It has never happened to me, luckily.

I don't really know exactly what the plan is... I'm not a person that's just pursuing acting or just pursuing singing or just pursuing dancing. You know, I would love to do reality television, I would like to go back to Broadway.

I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.

I act, produce, and direct. They are three different jobs all within the same realm of creativity. I enjoy all of them equally, but ultimately, I'm an actor.

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.