Quotes About Complexity

Almighty help any man who tries to keep track of your tangled courtships, son.

Women are difficult enough to understand, he thought, and I had to go and pick the oddest one of the lot.

No person was one single emotion; no person had only one desire. They had many, and usually those desires conflicted with one another like two rosebushes fighting for the same patch of ground.

I don't think I'd ever realized, until that moment, that a person could be beautiful and ugly at the same time. When you're a teenage boy, you want the beautiful people to be truly beautiful. It's hard to see otherwise, stupid as it sounds. I guess I owe her for that." "It's a lesson a lot of people never learn, Adolin.

Look close at a given person, and you'd see their uniqueness—see that they didn't quite match whatever broad category you'd first put them in.

He had been more complex than that. Every person was.

Humans don't have programming." "Yes you do. You have too much of it. Conflicting programs, none of it interfacing properly, all calling different functions at the same time—or the same function for contradictory reasons. Yet you ignore it sometimes. That is not a flaw. It is what makes you you." I

I enjoy things with curious properties, and stupidity is most interesting. The more you study it, the further it flees—and yet the more of it you obtain, the less you understand about it!

All people are foolish, just in different ways

Inadecuado? - repitió Patrón-. ¿Como... dividir por cero, por ejemplo?

The more faces we wear the more confused they become.

But those who are able to distinguish between a range of various emotions "do much, much better at managing the ups and downs of ordinary existence than those who see everything in black and white.

to the conspiratorial mind, shit never just happens,' the complexities of human life are reduced to produce theories that are 'always consoling in their simplicity" bad things do not happen because of a wildly complex swirl of abstract historical and social variables. They happen because bad men live to stalk our happiness. And you can fight, and possibly even defeat, bad men. If you can read the hidden story

we can fight our tendency to accept binaries by asking what additional perspectives are missing between the extremes.

What's more, according to Brown's research, play shapes our brain, fosters empathy, helps us navigate complex social groups, and is at the core of creativity and innovation. In some ways, it helps our overheated brain cool down.

Regardless of the complexity of the concepts, studying leadership is way easier than leading.

We are complex beings who wake up every day and fight against being labeled and diminished with stereotypes and characterizations that don't reflect our fullness.

Brandolini's law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

to the conspiratorial mind, shit never just happens,' the complexities of human life are reduced to produce theories that are 'always consoling in their simplicity

Jeremy Bentham, the great utilitarian philosopher, once spiked this argument. He said, 'There are two types of people in the world, those who divide people into two types, and those who do not.

But embracing failure without acknowledging the real hurt and fear that it can cause, or the complex journey that underlies rising strong, is gold-plating grit.

It's possible that feeling bittersweet may be more frequently experienced or recognized by people who have a more nuanced ability to interpret their emotional states.

know, but the way I see it, there's really no pure race. Everybody is mixed with something.

More than one thing can be true at once.