Top 100 Complicated To Quotes
#1. The car is the most regulated thing in the world. It's more complicated to make a car than it is to send a rocket to space.
Henrik Fisker
#2. 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
#3. Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.
John Von Neumann
#4. Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.
C. W. Ceram
#5. Each time I went to create my website, I needed imagery. It was complicated to get, the process was expensive, I had to negotiate rights. I knew there had to be a better way.
Jon Oringer
#6. We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
Andrew Young
#7. I felt differently about her [Gypsy Rose Lee] during every phase of the research and writing process. Often, I felt incredibly sorry for her; she had an extremely difficult childhood and a complicated 'to say the least' relationship with her family, her mother especially.
Karen Abbott
#8. Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.
Saskia De Brauw
#10. I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.
Haruki Murakami
#11. Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.
Charles Keating
#12. It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.
Bill Reid
#13. People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures in it could have evolved spontaneously, but that the economy is too complicated to operate without being directed by politicians.
Thomas Sowell
#14. Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
C. W. Ceram
#15. Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.
John Pomfret
#16. I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.
Moby
#17. As for her hair, or rather hairs, they are too complicated to describe, but one system went down her back, lying in a thick pad there, while another, created for a lighter destiny, rippled around her forehead.
E. M. Forster
#18. Life is indeed terribly complicated - to a man who has lost his principles.
G.K. Chesterton
#19. Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise of Buddhism - that you're in a very distorted state of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#20. I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.
Charis Wilson
#21. It is both more difficult and more complicated to die than people think.
Halldor Laxness
#22. If you find it complicated to answer someone's question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer
Ibn Arabi
#23. Sometimes, you're stuck with a system too complicated to model completely.
Robin Sloan
#24. Life seems complicated to me; I feel confused a lot of the time by life. I feel confused about the fact that we can be so tender as creatures to one another, and so monstrous at the same time.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#25. Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way it works, a concept too powerful to ignore but too complicated to explain.
John Corey Whaley
#27. My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
Laura Marling
#28. I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. All that matters is getting the songs played well, trying to get them to sound as close to the record live, which isn't easy, because my music is quite complicated to play.
Adam Ant
#29. As long as I've got a book, it doesn't matter where I am. I can instantly be a million miles away, in a completely different place, on a different planet even. I can be someone else, you know? When it gets too complicated to be myself.
Suzanne Brockmann
#30. It's not only just difficult but very complicated to loose someone very close to you, the person goes away but the void remains to kill the living until they learnt to let go.
Viraj J. Mahajan
#31. In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I was stuck. My feelings about my mother, you see, must be too complicated to easily flow into words.
Ted Hughes
#32. The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
Marquis De Custine
#33. Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
George Santayana
#34. We're not here to discuss Maleficent! Her story is too long and complicated to debate in the time we have left...
Serena Valentino
#35. Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.
John Dos Passos
#36. Mozart is always a bit of a challenge - you know, even though it is often given to very young singers, it is actually the most complicated to sing in many instances.
Sarah Brightman
#37. At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
Michael Bergdahl
#38. I sometimes find myself thinking: wouldn't it be far less complicated to have a job like that? To sell things? To order cheese and salamis and all the rest and not worry about what we should do and how we should do it?
Alexander McCall Smith
#39. My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.
Meat Loaf
#40. - It is far more complicated to have the sex one sees being carried out nowadays, a mere mechanical act, causing tension during the act, and emptiness afterwards.
Paulo Coelho
#41. Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me.
Terry Pratchett
#42. It's so much easier to fall in love, and so much more complicated to fall out of it.
Lisa Gardner
#43. Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.
Martin Parr
#44. Something inside her recognized the potential for more with him. Either they fell in love and she became tethered to him, or a broken heart was in her future. Better to stop anything from developing at all. Before love became too messy, too addicting, too complicated to escape.
Beth Caudill
#45. I haven't had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It's somewhat complicated to understand that. I've hardly ever spoken about it. You're in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.
Byron Katie
#46. I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.
Libba Bray
#47. I can win the Ballon d'Or, but only if Messi's level drops a bit. It will be very complicated to do so if he keeps up his current form. I really believe I can win the award, but there's not much I can do if Messi maintains this level.
Mario Balotelli
#48. It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
Faith Hill
#49. Sometimes life is so complicated to keep promises.
Lee Monroe
#50. Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.
Maria Cantwell
#51. She knew there were only small joys in life
the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through
and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.
Lorrie Moore
#52. Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
Haruki Murakami
#53. Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.
Scott Adams
#54. Some things in life are just to complicated to explain in any language.'
Olga was absolutely right, Tsukuru thought as he sipped his wine. Not just to explain to others, but to explain to yourself. Force yourself to try to explain it, and you create lies.
Haruki Murakami
#55. Modern families are complicated things. Siblings, half siblings, stepparents, stepcousins, what have you. You can't pick who you're born to, that's for sure.
Cherie Priest
#56. There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll just try to paint the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him fairly close to humor and try to get it just right.
Nelson Shanks
#57. What you pretend to be is so complicated that I don't even bother to try to understand it.
Miguel Ruiz
#58. The change starts when you start watching a video. You don't see it, you don't feel it but it starts at this moment, just by reading a complicated book or watching a film you again change... It's a fact!
Deyth Banger
#59. To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
Anne Lamott
#60. 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
#61. Don't fall prey to the 'genius' syndrome and outsmart yourself by being too complicated
Sheila Davis
#62. The simplest explanation usually sounds right and is far
more convincing than any complicated explanation could
hope to be.
Scott Adams
#63. A woman is a highly developed, deeply intelligent, infinitely complicated being. And it needs to be carefully tricked into doing things.
Arj Barker
#64. Child-rearing today was so complicated. You always had to think of what they'd say on television later.
Orson Scott Card
#65. The fact that the American government has formally set aside an enormous yearly budget of nearly $75 million to increase cultural exchanges in order to bring about what it calls "regime change" has muddied the waters and complicated American Studies in Iran more than anything else.
Mohammad Marandi
#66. I don't believe you can reduce the world to a mathematical formula. I start with the world, assume it's complicated, and ask where can I get help from a whole range of disciplines.
Noreena Hertz
#67. Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.
Auliq Ice
#68. 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
#69. When you go to a site, you usually run into usability problems pretty quickly. They're not hidden. They're not complicated. They're not baffling. They were in the design or crept into the design.
Steve Krug
#70. Such audacity could never be faked - Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth.
Scott Lynch
#71. The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it with any clarity you must prune and prune. In
Italo Calvino
#72. We were able to acknowledge that all these mutually contradictory opinions were right on some point in these complicated interrelationships, and to demonstrate that they had discovered something that was correct.
Sigmund Freud
#73. At the piano, I'm able to communicate in a way that is very intimate and direct. My approach at music is a bit like talking to a friend. You don't have to be very complicated when you speak. If you say what's in your heart, it's usually very simple.
David Lanz
#74. When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it
Bruno Mars
#75. In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.
Haruki Murakami
#76. Fuck," she said, after a minute. "And I thought I liked to make my life complicated." She
Jojo Moyes
#77. This is complicated," you said, back on the napkin, and then looked at me. You wanted to pry me open, I could see it, drag me across our boundaries so we could feast together in secret from the rest of the world. "But," you said, "no, not but. I love you.
Daniel Handler
#78. Like most complicated things where it's easy to get derailed, their marriage was successful because they mastered the basics. From that mastery they could weather anything.
Fawn Weaver
#79. 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
#80. I'm just really a free spirit. You gotta be like that. 'Cause life ain't that complicated. It's only that complicated when you make it that way. I just wanna wake up and move with the way it goes. If it's meant to happen, it will happen.
Nayvadius Cash
#81. You're one messed-up piece of work."
"Yeah, but you're starting to worry that you might like me," I say confidently. "Considering I also give you a boner, shit's gonna get reaaaaal complicated here in the next few months.
Lauren Layne
#82. When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.
Adam Beach
#83. In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue, but because you have that complicated history of the Trail of Tears and slavery and Jim Crow, the Whitopia has a different flavor.
Richard Benjamin
#84. I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat.
Holly Hunter
#85. Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law.
Jim Ratcliffe
#86. 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.
Pablo Casals
#87. It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.
Mayim Bialik
#88. [Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because it makes a difference.
Bonnie Bassler
#89. Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically complicated than sending young people into this same neurological danger zone as soldiers.
Alice Dreger
#90. Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about "let's see" and "try." If there's no clear right answer, perhaps the thing you ought to do is something new. Something new is often the right path when the world is complicated.
Seth Godin
#91. Once you learn the basic rules of good nutrition, you'll realize it's not so complicated. It doesn't matter if you're running errands or 13 miles, you need enough fuel to last all day. Proper nutrition is the difference between feeling exhausted and getting the most out of a workout.
Summer Sanders
#92. What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.
Nora Ephron
#93. He painted a rosy picture of prewar Germany in contrast to its current "disgrace and defeat."8 He made complicated things simple. "Political agitation must be primitive," he said.9
Peter Ross Range
#94. Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women
all people, finally
complicated?
Stewart O'Nan
#95. It is difficult to describe the peace that comes with giving yourself permission to know what you know. To have hard, complicated realities staring at you and be able to raise your head and look back at them with a steady gaze, scared maybe, grieved perhaps, but straight on and unwavering
Valerie Tarico
#96. All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#97. I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler ... complicated, that is.
M.K. Alexander
#98. People want things to be complicated, but they have to love themselves first and then each other and then it will seed everywhere
Elizabeth Taylor-Wey
#99. A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.
Zadie Smith
#100. 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
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