Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Xenophon
Pope Paul VI
Pauline Phillips
Leo Rosten
Hannah Arendt
Salvador Dali
All authors
Today's birthdays
1908 - Bette Davis
1937 - Colin Powell
1856 - Booker T. Washington
1956 - Reid Ribble
1968 - Stewart Lee
1967 - Denise Juneau
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Businesswoman
Author
Cartoonist
Designer
President
Artist
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Scott Turow Quotes
Scott Turow quote
Scott Turow quote
Previous quote
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
Scott Turow
Facebook
Twitter
Vkontakte
Tumblr
Reddit
Scott Turow
American
Novelist
Born:
Apr 12
,
1949
Topics
Complexity
,
Purpose
,
Narrative
,
Ambiguity
,
Us
,
Present
Links
Cite this page:
Citation
Related Authors
Elie Wiesel
,
Ernest Hemingway
,
H. P. Lovecraft
,
James Baldwin
,
John Updike
,
Leo Rosten
,
Nathaniel Hawthorne
,
Richard Bach
The Last Trial (Kindle County Book 11)
on Amazon
Buy now
Quotes To Explore
As important as it is to learn how to deal with different kinds of people, truly toxic people will never be worth your time and energy - and they take a lot of each. Toxic people create unnecessary complexity, strife, and, worst of all, stress.
Travis Bradberry
Time
People
Worth
Stress
Will
Important
Energy
Different Kinds
Strife
Worst
Complexity
Unnecessary
Kinds
Take
Never
Toxic
Learn
Deal
How
Truly
Lot
Different
Create
Your
Each
My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that's where genius lives.
Robin S. Sharma
Life
You
Genius
Simplicity
Fly
Remove
Build
Encouragement
Energy
Complexity
Out
Vampires
Delete
Clean
Toxic
Because
Around
Cherish
Where
Anything
Your
Team
Lives
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
Love
Saying
Relationship
You
Emotions
Language
Other
Say
Complexity
Know
Equal
Because
Human
Love You
Lovers
Human Emotions
Really
Even
Each
Deepest
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.
Stephen Hawking
Wait
Will
Slow
Engineering
Increase
Changes
Our
Complexity
See
Able
Slow Process
About
Genetic
Genetic Engineering
Because
Years
Effect
Improve
Human
Process
Race
Human Race
Code
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan Perlis
Fools
Remove
Complexity
Some
Geniuses
Ignore
Avoid
Suffer
Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Angry
Anger
Sometimes
Feelings
Enormous
Everybody
Relative
Ease
Complexity
Perceiving
Takes
Leading
Discern
Source
Gets
Regardless
Either
Skill
Convoluted
Reason
Original
Routes
The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
Alice Munro
Simple
Nothing
Complexity
Easy
Seems
Within
Endless
Just
Mean
Things
There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily contained in other Pink Floyd records, particularly following on from 'Animals,' which was very spare and sparse. Production on it was much more massive, the complexity of the recording was much more intense.
Nick Mason
Recording
Animals
Other
Complexity
Following
More
Records
Contained
Particularly
Massive
Were
Pink
Pink Floyd
Very
Wall
Intense
Which
Spare
Much
Ingredients
Production
Many
Necessarily
Floyd
Either we learn to live together and embrace the complexity of life, or we will end up with fascism again and destroy ourselves.
Sebastian Lelio
Life
Together
Will
Live
Destroy
Complexity
Ourselves
Embrace
Learn
End
Up
Either
Again
Fascism
What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.
Bryan Singer
Respect
Better
Evil
Understanding
Complexity
Kind
Prevent
Call
Understand
Any
Just
Acknowledgement
Means
Help
Deserve
Deserves
Necessarily
More quotes?
Try another of these similiar topics.
Complexity
Purpose
Narrative
Ambiguity