Our culture has a universal myth in which we see emotion as more complex and obscure than intellect. Indeed, emotion might be "deeper" in some sense of prior evolution, but this need not make it harder to understand; in fact, I think today we actually know much more about emotion than about reason. Marvin Minsky
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song. Zoltan Kodaly
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman. Ann Beattie
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know. John le Carré
We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world... If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations of our times, ours are finding a pictorial equivalent for man's new knowledge and consciousness of his more complex inner self. Mark Rothko
Musing on the phrase ‘waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many ‘wastes of time'-small talk, daydreaming-are imperatives. Tom Peters