Complexity Of Human Quotes:

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

- Ben Huh

topic: Business, Simplicity, Rewards, Online Marketing, Complexity Of Human

The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.

- Mignon G. Eberhart

topic: Simple, Steel, Made, Complexity Of Human

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Artist, Origin Of Life, Doe, Complexity Of Human, Multiplicity

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

- Duane Michals

topic: Love You, Love Relationship, Emotion, Deepest Love, Complexity Of Human

The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter of being coy, or withholding information. It's allowing for multiple possibilities, recognizing the complexity of human behavior, and making the world of a piece of fiction as marvelously confounding as the world we live in.

- Peter Turchi

topic: Writing, Keys, Fiction, Complexity Of Human, Confounding

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Life, Interesting, Littles, Complexity Of Human

Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein considers this eternal question through the story of Andrew Waite, scientist, father, widower, struggling to raise two daughters, living with the ghost of his wife, facing a test of his faith in science. There are no easy answers here, just the honest complexity of human beings trying their best to be good people. The Explanation for Everything is moving, beautiful, and wonderfully funny.

- Victor LaValle

topic: Beautiful, Daughter, Father, Widowers, Easy Answers

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.

- Philip Zimbardo

topic: Wise, Believe, People, Appraisal, Complexity Of Human

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

- Sidney Hook

topic: Understanding, Perception, Awareness, Liberal Education, Complexity Of Human

I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire; or maybe just: Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters. And then smile very serenely until they say, Oh.

- Cheryl Strayed

source: Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.98, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Motivation, Writing, People, Complexity Of Human

The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved.

- Theodore Dalrymple

topic: Men, Law, Ideas, Complexity Of Human

I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology - and our ability to accentuate and exploit them - is going to make the notion of pure competition impossible.

- Malcolm Gladwell

source: "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

topic: Track, Worry, Understanding, Accentuate, Complexity Of Human

We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.

- Northrop Frye

source: Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.56, Indiana University Press

topic: Writing, Looks, Use, Complexity Of Human, Figures Of Speech