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“Unlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don't go in much for the structured approach to career progression. It's up to each individual witch to take on a girl to hand the area over to when she dies. Witches are not by nature gregarious, at least with other witches, and they certainly don't have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have.”

Hands Dies Girl Individual Leader Careers Approach Areas Complicated Witch Hierarchy Wizards Progression Granny Gregarious

Author:Terry Pratchett

“If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.”

Ifs Stories Complicated Maps

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were not concerned in the execution of it. Adding to these considerations the natural diversity of human opinions on all new and complicated subjects, it is impossible to consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.”

Humans Wells Difficult Natural Opinion Impossible Subjects Objects Degrees Diversity Concerned Tasks Miracle Complicated Consideration Conventions Execution Constitutional Convention

Book:James Madison's

Source: James Madison's

“Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.”

Philosophy Complicated Procedures

Author:Max Horkheimer

“No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963

“There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.”

People Millions Affair Complicated Plenty Complicated Things

Book:Endless horizons

Source: Endless horizons

“Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.”

Art Fall Art Is Complicated Categories

Author:Frank Stella

“I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.”

Knows Life Is Plans Complicated

Book:Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel

Source: Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel

“As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.”

Years Cities Foundation Complicated Planning Nonsense Subtle Dogma Rebuilding Pseudoscience City Planning Urban Renewal Bloodletting

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.”

Men Pieces Complicated Mechanism Machinery Steam

Book:The Andrew Carnegie reader

Source: The Andrew Carnegie reader

“The saxophone is actually a translation of the human voice, in my conception. All you can do is play melody. No matter how complicated it gets, it's still a melody.”

Humans Stills Matter Play Voice Can Do Music Jazz Complicated Melody Conception Translations Jazz Music Playing Music Saxophone Human Voice Playing Jazz

Author:Stan Getz

“A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There’s nothing complicated about it.”

Complicated Enjoyable Good Movie

Author:Akira Kurosawa

“He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor.”

People Thinking Inspirational Stills Magic Keys Dance Productions Complicated Dance Floor

Author:Deborah Cox

“People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.”

People Society Complicated Mask

Author:Robert Greene

“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.”

Moments Acceptance Mindfulness Complicated Opening Buddhist Pleasant Present Moment Balanced Clinging Rejecting Mindful Living

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.”

Humans Heart Stories Deals Honest Complicated Tolerance Human Heart Ambiguity

Book:Ron Carlson Writes a Story

Source: Ron Carlson Writes a Story

“Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.”

People Kind May Persons Shows Virtue Subjects Healthy Prejudice Chaos Complicated Complexity Gardening Virtuous Show Me Gardener Simplify

Author:Allen Lacy

“A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.”

Ifs Feels Happens Beautiful Simple Talking Design Months Solutions Simplicity Complicated Designer Elegant Graphic Artist Graphic Designer

Book:Conrad Stargard: The Radiant Warrior

Source: Conrad Stargard: The Radiant Warrior

“Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.”

Reality Complicated Conclusion Justification Hasty

Author:Hideki Yukawa

“Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.”

Religion Causes Natural Understood Miracle Complicated Accidents

Author:George Santayana

“The minute they become a partner in the Palestinian government, reality will become a lot more complicated for them than when they were a terror organization alone.”

Reality Government Minutes Organization Terror Complicated Partners Palestinian

Author:Avi Dichter

“Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use real people as your stars, to not be about winning, to be about going on complicated, challenging, funny, dramatic journeys.”

People Way Real Use Reality Form Winning Stars Challenges Journey Possibility Television Excited Complicated Dramatic Reality Television

Author:John Landgraf

“Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant you can slip it in your pocket, but it's got the great doodad when you need it”

Needs Home Simple Design Pages Army Complicated Pockets Knives Slips Google Elegant Swiss Functionality Swiss Army Knives

Author:Marissa Mayer

“As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.”

Ifs Needs Facts Running Difficult Simple Company Team Building Members Organization Complicated Critical Improvement Department Executives Staff Team Building

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“And the biggest improvement I see between 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' and 'Thank You for Smoking' is that 'Up in the Air' deals with the complicated human stuff in a way that my other films have not. It's a more articulated film, and because of that, I'm most proud of it.”

Way Humans Film Stuff Deals Air Proud Complicated Improvement Smoking Thank You Up In The Air

Author:Jason Reitman

“Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.”

Culture Results Habit Conflict Instinct Complicated Deceit Reverence Cowardice Ecology Adjustment Incomplete Civilisation Disagreeable Idiosyncrasies Deep Ecology

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Love is a complicated path, and that path can lead us up to heaven or hurl us down into hell.”

Life Heaven Love Is Hell Path Complicated

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Life is extremely complicated.”

Life Is Complicated

Author:Robert Ludlum

“Photoshop is useful in many ways but must NEVER be used for the altering of photographs. My assistants and my agency do whatever Photoshop work for me that may be required as it is too complicated for my brain.”

Way May Used Brain Photograph Complicated Agency Assistants Photoshop

Author:Elliott Erwitt

“You should be real witnesses of a world of doing and acting differently. But in life it is difficult for everything to be clear, precise, outlined neatly. Life is complicated; it consists of grace and sin. He who does not sin is not human. We all make mistakes and we need to recognise our weakness. A religious who recognises himself as weak and a sinner does not negate the witness that he is called to give, rather he reinforces it, and this is good for everyone. What I expect of you therefore is to give witness. I want this special witness from religious.”

“Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.”

Way Life Is Simple Complicated Life Is Simple

Author:Jack White

“People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.”

People Thinking Knows Order Simple Practice Opposites Complicated Working It Simple Truths

Book:Assata: An Autobiography

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all”

Needs Said Sometimes Metaphor Complicated

Author:Immortal Technique

“When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.”

Spiritual Becoming Achievement Seeking Burden Heavy Complicated Doctrine Artificial Unnecessary Beginners Esoteric

Author:Paul Brunton

“Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!”

Feels Strange Complicated

Book:The Night in Lisbon: A Novel

Source: The Night in Lisbon: A Novel

“I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldn’t it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?”

People Ifs Feels Humans Mean Turns Diversity Complicated Sexuality Accepted Complexity Gossip Honored Ridicule Condemning What It Means To Be Human

Author:Janet Jackson

“I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.”

“We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future.”

Knows Needs Should Black Wealth Known Complicated Heritage Mentality Flexible Unfolding Resilient Superstar

Book:Civil Wars

Source: Civil Wars

“The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.”

World Ideas Differences Slavery Complexes Complicated Violent Native

Author:Amiri Baraka

“I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that they’re complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better—to know that they can rise above that and make something great.”

People Knows Humans Sides Complicated Shy Rise Above

Author:Elizabeth Peyton

“Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists are trying to wreck amendments as we speak.”

Way Trying Done Speak Easy Policy Climate Complicated Amendments Wrecks Things Done Lobbyists

Author:Bryony Worthington, Baroness Worthington

“I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's just the opposite. You have to be able to see what looks like the most complicated thing in the world and, in a flash, find the underlying simplicity. That's what you need: a talent for simplicity.”

World Needs Looks Able Talent Opposites Scientist Simplicity Complicated Flash Great Scientist Complicated Things

Author:Mitchell A. Wilson

“Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.”

Ifs Men Want Dies Simplicity Complicated Organisms Doomed Extinction Simple Life

Author:Ezra Pound

“But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.”

Facts Speak Complicated Myth Fancy Restaurants Glamorous Beans Menus Camouflage

Author:William Peter Blatty

“Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated.”

People Inspirational Needs Women Successful Empowerment Simplicity Complicated Women Empowerment Successful People Empowering Women Empowered Women

Author:Anne McKevitt

“My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.”

Lying Design Comfortable Shoes Complicated Documents Businessman Lying Men

Author:Steve Madden

“Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its very obviously French.”

Different Country Forever Industry Complicated Bangs Movie Industry French Movies

Author:Mick Jagger

“Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with never-to-be forgotten stories.”

People Made Stories Jesus Simple Messages Everyday Forgotten Complicated Sentences Made It Spokes Illustrating

Book:Angels: Ringing Assurance that We Are Not Alone

Source: Angels: Ringing Assurance that We Are Not Alone

“Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.”

Art Literature Complicated Theatre Movie Visuals Gambling Collision Visual Art

Author:Yahoo Serious

“Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.”

Ifs Want Nature Ugly Complicated Chaotic

Author:Steven Weinberg

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