Quotes About Complexity

The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.

Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he's a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he's a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he's someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.

Silent people hold a magic and a knowledge that less contained people lack; that their not saying something means that more important thoughts are going on inside their head. Perhaps their seeming simplicity belies a hidden mosaic of fanciful thoughts.

Am I OK? I'm lots of things. I'm lonely, I'm tired, I'm sad, I'm happy, I'm lucky, I'm unlucky; I'm a million different things every day of the week. But I suppose OK is one of them.

People who believe that they are not interesting, usually are the most interesting of all.

He's a simple man only I don't really believe that. Nobody who says as little as he does, is as simple as you'd think. It takes a lot to not say a lot, because when you're not talking, you're thinking and he thinks a lot.

Children understand...things far better. Adults always make things so complicated.

the more you try to simplify things, the more you complicate them.

You can't know everything by looking at me. You can never know by looking at someone.

He's a simple man only I don't really believe that. Nobody who says as little as he does, is as simple as you'd think. It takes a lot to not say a lot, because when you're not talking, you're thinking, and he thinks a lot.

ali oduvijek sam se nadala da su šutljivi ljudi upu?eni u magiju i znanja koja nedostaju manje suzdržanim ljudima, da to što negovore zna?i da im se glavom motaju važnije misli. Možda njihova prividna jednostavnost krije tajni mozaik zamršenih misli

Sometimes I wonder if love is enough, or if there are levels of love.

Fui cavando bajo las capas de complejidades que habíamos creado con los años de nuestra relación. ¿Qué era, me preguntaba, lo que entonces teníamos que cupiera reavivar? ¿Qué podía hacer a dos personas prometerse mutuamente pasar juntos cada día del resto de sus vidas?

But I like labels," she admitted. "They make everything so much clearer." Her sister Bree always told her she liked things to be wrapped up too neatly, and that part of the point of life was its messiness, its refusal to be wrapped up. Brett always took the advice with a grain of salt—it was probably Bree's excuse for a messy room, or for breaking up with boys she'd dated without actually telling them.

Your career is stagnating by the minute. You are steadily letting your sedentary computer-programming desk-bound lifestyle turn your body into mush. All of these problems are much bigger and harder to just fix than a bug. They're all complex, hard to measure, and comprised of many different small solutions—some of which will fail to work!

Did he really believe God wrote stories that were open to one explanation only? A story that knew but one explanation could hardly be interesting and was certainly not worth the trouble of remembering.

Is he aware of both—and unaware? Can the mind ride two such separate tracks simultaneously? Concealed ambivalence. Hidden ambiguity. Are we so flawed that we can never truly know our own most secret motives?

How can we expect to know everything about God? He looked at me, his eyes narrowing. I call that ambiguity, I said. Riddles, puzzles, double meanings, lost possibilities, the dark side to the light, the light side to the darkness, different perspectives on the same thing. Nothing in this whole world has only one side to it. Everything is like a kaleidoscope. That's what I'm trying to capture in my art. That's what I mean by ambiguity.

theory is an extremely complicated thing, as varied and mixed-up and contradictory as life itself.

I don't like having feelings, _Eric Northman

I could add her to the long list of people I didn't understand.

You, on the other hand, are a sweet little éclair on the outside and a pit bull on the inside.

It can be tiring knowing so many people with hidden depths," Joe said. "Some days, shallow is good.

Lily might be icy on the outside, but inside she was Vesuvius.