#complex

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#clear #complex #every #problem #simple

Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements has been brought to order--that windows, doors and other details have been knitted into a scheme that manages to be at once regular and intricate. (p184) ↗

— Alain de Botton

#building #chaos #complexity #order #architecture

Usually, in romantic comedies, you end up sacrificing a great deal of the complexity - you know, just two attractive people and a good soundtrack. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#attractive people #comedies #complexity #deal #end

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#decay #expansion #means

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#also #audience #character #complex #complex character

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian. ↗

— David Remnick

#complex #constant #enough #everything #happy

It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end. ↗

— Walter Salles

#constant #end #endeavor #gotten #redford

When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#coming #complex #condo #dead #door

The complex develops out of the simple. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#develops #out #simple

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#inspirational #experience