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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.

~C. V. Raman

Topics: Complex Destruction Developed India Inferiority Inferiority Complex Needed Spirit Think Today I Think

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You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.

~Caleb Deschanel

Topics: Artificially Complex Compose Composition Conventional Else Enhanced Everything Frame Gain Middle More Much Reality Really See Sense Something Something Else Space Tend Than Things Would You Your

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I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

~Callie Khouri

Topics: About Assumptions Characters Complex Everyone Kinds Know Like Love Make Place Qualities Redeeming Start Them Think Where You I Love

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We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Angelina Jolie Aside Celebrities Complex Days Declining Few Live Lives Period Psychic Seem Stars

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More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

~Candice Millard

Topics: Complex Life More Novel Often Pages Real Real Life Rich Seem Than Unpredictable Would

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We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.

~Carl Honore

Topics: Algorithm Been Cannot Complex Consultant Counter Culture Down Economic Ethos Everything Fix Hijacked Immensely Live Management Many Me Nature Numbers Point Political Power Problems Runs Show Slide Social Them Want You

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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

~Carl Von Clausewitz

Topics: Always Any Begin Complex Elsewhere Here Looking More Must Nature Other Part Proceed Shall Simple Subject Than Thought Together War Whole

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The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

~Carlos Ghosn

Topics: Complex Leadership Pieces Prioritize Role Situation Small Them Transform

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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Complex Consider Demands Devices Elements Enhance Fiction Forces Infinitely Influenced Many More Narrative Novel Other Regarding Screenplays Screenwriter Story Structure Used Work Writing You

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I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they are male or female - they have to be complex and make choices that maybe we don't agree with, you know? I guess that's what makes them human.

~Cary Fukunaga

Topics: Agree Any Character Choices Complex Female Guess Human Know Make Makes Male Maybe Them Think Well-Rounded Whether You I Think

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