Let's Not Complicate Things Quotes

#1. Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

Carl Van Vechten

#3. My natural tendency is to complicate everything
and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.

Anne Lamott

#4. I'm always trying to complicate things. For some reason I'll go, "Well, maybe I can get that in," and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself.

Jim Carrey

#5. Yes, everything is simple. It's people who complicate things.

Albert Camus

#6. It is one of the gifts of great spiritual teachers to make things simple. It is one of the gifts of their followers to complicate them again. Often we need to scrape away the accumulated complications of a master's message in order to hear the kernel of what they said. (24)

Julia Cameron

#7. To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

Gertrude Stein

#8. The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

Cecelia Ahern

#9. Complications, usually lead to more complications; ...and if you continue to complicate things, you might end up dead in the Hospital, ...due to, Complications!!

Sean Dunne

#10. Real people complicate things. Real people die. Real people can be killed by other people.

Julie Cross

#11. Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things

Jay-Z

#12. When we have many things within ourselves which are neither known nor accepted, then such things complicate our lives horrifyingly, and in fact provoke all sorts of situations which could be avoided through knowledge of ourselves.

Samael Aun Weor

#13. As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

David Eddings

#14. I have this natural want to ... when things sound very easy and straightforward, something inside me always makes me want to take a left turn. If it comes to me and it's too simple, there has to be a more complicated route. I will complicate things like that at times.

Chino Moreno

#15. In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson.

Drew Goddard

#16. You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.

Virat Kohli

#17. Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did.

Derek Jeter

#18. If we try to complicate our lives, developing clever plans and ambitions, we lose sight of the way in which small, insignificant things actually hold the key to what we seek.

Yi-Ping Ong

#19. My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than a week, then I doubt there is anything I can do for you. You, sir, are a romantic, and I suspect your condition is incurable.

Frances Hardinge

#20. I am through fucking around. Maybe this is going to complicate the hell out of things. So what? You're the complication I want more than anything else. You're my favorite complication. No matter what sort of holes you poke in my trust.

Scott Lynch

#21. I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

Henry Thomas

#22. Girls always told me..."Don't complicate things." I did my best. It was so hard to keep things simple.

Leos Carax

#23. I fell back into the sofa, letting my head thump against the wall. Of course, there would be something else to complicate things. I couldn't catch a break with a net the size of Texas.

K.J. McPike

#24. 1. Be honest. Don't complicate things.
2. Do what scares you the most.
3. Always do the thing that could get you arrested.
4. Don't be afraid of reality.

Shana Norris

#25. We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of us. And that undivided love is put into action when we do as Jesus said, love as I have loved you

Mother Teresa

#26. I require simple things. You, My children of dust, always complicate matters.

R.J. Larson

#27. Appreciate what you've got and follow your heart and you're all good. Don't over-complicate things.

Kristen Stewart

#28. When you feel that a relationship is not same as it was and it is lacking the old charm, love, and magic - give it some space.

We often complicate things by wondering how to fix it. At times, just some space and unsaid love can heal even those wounds that are deeply engraved.

Nikita Dudani

#29. Of course things like that complicate life, and there are all kinds of
readjustments to think about, battles to fight and lines to draw.

Nick Hornby

#30. When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

Richard Marx

#31. ...it's really more intelligent to be able to simplify things than to complicate them. Even if some people think it makes you look stupid.

Eugenia Cheng

#32. To be honest, I thought of you as an amateur - a spoiled, entitled, runaway princeling bent on revenge who would get caught and then complicate my elegant scheme. I figured the less you knew, the better."
"I hate it when you sugarcoat things," Ash said.

Cinda Williams Chima

#33. I don't want to make things more complicated for you, so just let me know how I can do that. Unless you want me to complicate things for you, then by all means, let me know how I can do that as well.

Nicole Williams

#34. I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

Jose Saramago