Quotes About Complexity

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously.

Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice.

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.

There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

At least you used to know 'there's the villain, there's the good guy', but today there are more shades of grey.

Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

There is good and bad in everyone.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesnt make them good people or bad people.