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Quotes About Complex

A spinning stash is much more complex than a knitting stash. It is like the first mother goddess. Everything comes from it, and nothing happens without it. You can't have yarn without the fiber. (From the essay 'Spinning Stash')
~ Jillian Moreno
The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.
~ Joan Bauer
But this way of thinking about competition is too narrow. The real point of competition is not to beat your rivals. It's not about winning a sale. The point is to earn profits. Competing for profits is more complex. It's a struggle involving multiple players, not just rivals, over who will capture the value an industry creates.
~ Joan Magretta
These people could not be bailed out, of course, because the free market was free. Of course, at times of financial crisis the Government did, in fact, bail out the major institutions of the free market, but this did not in any way undermine the fundamental notion that the market must be free and this bailing out could, of course, not be extended to individuals within the free market. Some people are, alas, not intellectually capable of understanding arguments about such complex things.
~ Joanna Kavenna
Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say he's a lover.
~ Joe Abercrombie
She is brave and strong and broken all at once.
~ Anna Funder
Ukraine's relationship with Poland is difficult and contradictory. For 500 years they shared a common history, first under the Polish kings, then under the Russian tsars. But like rival siblings they define themselves more by their differences than their similarities – Poland glamorous and self-dramatising;
~ Anna Reid
For many centuries people have believed that there is continuity between the individual in utero and the individual in the world; now there is solid evidence that this ancient belief is correct, albeit in a far more complex and nuanced way than our ancestors ever imagined. But science can't tell us everything we need to know about this new perspective; there's always a gap where the hard evidence of the laboratory meets the soft flesh of our bodies.
~ Annie Murphy Paul
It's a very complex network of genes making products which go into the nucleus and turn on other genes. And, in fact, you find a continuing network of processes going on in a very complex way by which genes are subject to these continual adjustments, as you might say - the computer programmer deciding which genes ultimately will work.
~ John Gurdon
I like involved projects.
~ Tori Amos
I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.
~ Laura Dern
I'm proud of being from Hawaii, and I'm proud of being Hawaiian, but I'm more than that, too.
~ Kaui Hart Hemmings
The health-care system in the United States is a vast, complex, and expensive one, but it responds to market incentives.
~ Fareed Zakaria
A alma humana é um manicómio de caricaturas.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Leave in a complex state of slumber Your consciousness of science. Look At your white face in the wine's red mirror And then drink the mirror ...and your consciousness
~ Fernando Pessoa
Fifty Shades is, indeed, hilariously bureaucratic. Submission, as it happens, is like EU membership: tediously legalistic. Poor Anastasia finds herself embroiled in complex negotiations before she can get down to business. It is not enough for the Europeans that they get to whip you – they have to torture you with paperwork as well:
~ Fintan O'Toole
I'm more fascinated by anti-heroes, and Gambit is one of those.
~ Simon Kinberg
Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.
~ Tavi Gevinson
Right now, it's very difficult to single out one fighter, pound-for-pound, who is the best. Right now, it's very complex. Miguel Cotto, Mayweather and Zab Judah's a good fighter as well.
~ Roberto Duran
I firmly believe brand stories are complex and multilayer.
~ Bozoma Saint John
The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
~ Elon Musk
When Complex hired me, originally I wasn't at First We Feast, I was just like a hired hand for Complex. They'd send me out to different events or they'd have people visiting the office and I'd do interviews with athletes, musicians, whoever.
~ Sean Evans
You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There's not one part that He doesn't want to make completely whole.
~ Joyce Meyer
Every life is a mystery. There is nobody whose life is normal and boring.
~ Frank McCourt