Quotes About Complexity

Because the world itself is now unfathomable, the only complexities that really count are small moments of domestic life that combine to trigger deep emotion. There is no longer any way of being poor in any interesting way in major cities like Manhattan

Is there a way," she wrote in closing, "to dignify sex, make it as complicated as we are, to make it not grotesque?

Because she does not express herself in theoretical language, no one expects too much from her and she is used to tripping out on layers of complexity in total silence.

Each new dilemma I encounter seems to provide a moral quandary that demands ever-increasing amounts of soul searching. No decision comes in black and white anymore. I suppose that's because I am just no longer young enough, brazen enough, naive enough, capricious enough, nor stupid enough to believe I have all the answers.

El cambio, el choque de culturas, la creciente escala de todo y la complejidad no van a desaparecer sino a acelerarse. Las organizaciones exitosas han entendido a golpes que la actitud de actuar como si nada estuviera pasando ya no les va a funcionar. Nosotros tenemos que darnos cuenta de que a nosotros tampoco.

El tiempo de las soluciones fáciles se acabó, porque las soluciones fáciles han fallado.

la gran cantidad de elecciones que debemos hacer, junto con su complejidad, ha minado nuestra habilidad para escoger bien;

People are complicated; that's why crayons come in boxes of sixty-four.

Hero-cults complicate everything in a Sacred Band.

Success would be a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No, success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning

If you're black, you got to look at America a little bit different. You got to look at America like the uncle who paid for you to go to college, but molested you.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

If you're black, you got to look at America a little bit different. You got to look at America like the uncle who paid for you to go to college, but who molested you.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

So we have to recognize that species concepts are humanly produced categories which may or may not always work when compared with the reality of nature.

To survive, Byzantine society and politics folded itself around the state.

Europe was now more economically complex, as we have seen; with that complexity came ambiguities of all kinds. And it is in societies where complexity and ambiguity give space for pragmatic solutions that women have in general found it most possible to negotiate space for their own protagonism.

We could spend the rest of our lives trying to randomly guess his keyword. And worse, I'm fairly certain he's using multiple keywords, maybe even more than one on every page. I wouldn't say it's crack-proof, but I believe it may be beyond my own personal abilities.

It didn't happen the way one can tell it; but if once can tell it as it was, then one wasn't in on it, or it all happened so long ago that candor comes too easily. In order to make the story tellable, one has to separate and put into sequence events which in reality were so entangled as to be inexplicable...

this is a two-fold country, and, what's more, everyone in it is two-fold, one part possibility and the other its refutal

Ich kann in gut und böse die Welt nicht teilen; nicht in zwei Zweige der Vernunft, nicht in gesund und krank. Wenn ich die Welt teilen wollte, müsst ich die Axt an mich selber legen, mein Inneres spalten, dem angeekelten Publikum die beiden Hälften hinhalten, dass es Grund hat die Nase zu rümpfen: Wo bleibt die Reinlichkeit. Ja, unrein ist was ich vorzuweisen habe. Nicht zum Reinbeißen und Runterschlucken. Zum Weglaufen, Günderrode.

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

Simple' does not mean 'easy'. I have learned that the things that seem the simplest are often the most powerful of all.

I am acutely aware that like a slip of paper in the wind, something in his nature eludes my grasp.