Reality Complexity Quotes

#1. The writer is often faced with two choices
turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.

Chinua Achebe

#2. At one point, Paola expressed a wish and used the subjunctive, and Brunetti felt himself close to tears at the beauty of the intellectual complexity of it: she could speak about what was not, could invent an alternative reality. He

Donna Leon

#3. The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

John Hodgman

#4. Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.

David Whyte

#5. When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

Dalai Lama

#6. Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.

Alan Moore

#7. Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.

Oliver DeMille

#8. Taken. There is so much intelligibility and specified complexity in this world that it seems willful and prejudiced to try to explain it away with no intelligence behind it. Can morality, personality, and reality be reasonably explained without a personal, moral first cause?

Ravi Zacharias

#9. I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.

David Hurn

#11. Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

Ron Fournier

#12. Reality confounds image.

Peter Heather

#13. First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

Frank Oz

#14. The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

Colum McCann

#15. Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.

Roger Ebert

#16. It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

Vladimir Lenin

#17. Stop trying to change reality by eliminating complexity.

David Whyte

#18. ragged clothing he had on was taken

Wooden Leg

#19. As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

Junot Diaz