Vivienne Ming Quotes

Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's not just complex, it's meta-complex.

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• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

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• Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.

  

  Tony Kushner
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• To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• If European countries want to cater to U.S. foreign policy interests, I don't think that they stand to gain anything.

  

  Vladimir Putin
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• The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

  

  William Hazlitt
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• Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.

  

  Salvador Dali
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• Writing totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

  

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• At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest home builders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients.

  

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• Everybody wants a solution on how to help their dogs, but we can't really see the problem until we reconnect ourselves to our instinctual self.

  

  Cesar Millan
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• There are many things that black women can continue to do to help black folk. First, black women have historically been among the most vocal advocates for equality in our community. We must take full advantage of such courage by continuing to combat the sexism in our communities. Black women, whether in church, or hip-hop, don't receive their just due. Second, when black women are in charge of child-rearing, they must make ever so sure to raise black children who respect both men and women, and who root out the malevolent beliefs about women that shatter our culture.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
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• Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

  

  David Dreman
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• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
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• We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

  

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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
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• There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Tendency
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• The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

  

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• Today's customer journey is an iterative, complex, pinball of touchpoints.

  

  David Louis Edelman
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• Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.

  

  Anne Carson
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• Human behavior is an enormously complex set of things, and that mixture of underlying things is different for different people, so it's not just complex, it's meta-complex.

  

  Vivienne Ming
  • Complex
  • Different People
  • Human Behavior