Quotes About Complexity

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only. RÉMY DE GOURMONT

You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.

Lippmann later called society "too big, too complex" for the average person to comprehend, since most citizens were "mentally children or barbarians. . . . Self-determination [is] only one of the many interests of a human personality." Lippmann urged that self-rule be subordinated to "order," "rights," and "prosperity.

In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process.

The authors of literary works may not have intended all the subtleties, complexities, undertones, and overtones that are attributed to them by critics and by students writing doctoral theses. That's what God says about geologists, I told him...

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Understanding proximate cause is also like understanding your mother: It can take years and then, just when you think you have her figured out, she surprises you.

We like to believe we can break strategy down to Five Forces or Seven Ss. But you can't. Strategy is extraordinarily emotional and demanding.

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

Women have so many levels. There's the physical level, which is a lot of fun. There's this emotional level, which is extremely mercurial.

We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.

For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.

Life is not just black and white, there are a million shades in between.

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.

I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.