Complexity Quotes

I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take.

I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that it doesn't really pay attention to the complexity and the nuance that is feminist thought.

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.

I am passionate about informing the world about our ocean - its complexity and beauty, its value to us, and the perils that it faces.

The Phoenix Project is a must read for business and IT executives struggling with the growing complexity of IT.

Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and third, we cannot control all the situation we face.

Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.

The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

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.

I'm looking for richness, complexity, and characters that have different layers and that you don't really get bored of.

People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.

As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality.

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

Don't accept the excuse of complexity.

It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.

Having worked my way from the bottom of the ladder to the top [of the UN] certainly helped me navigate that complexity, both political and bureaucratic.

Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity

If we look at the complexity of the challenges facing western societies today, we see that the problems are not really about outsiders, but have their roots much closer to home.

Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.

There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.

My background is in math and science, and I thrive on complexity, and I think lots of people do. People love puzzles; it's human nature to want to solve puzzles.

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity.

If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify it.

Redford builds a riveting, resonant political thriller that values the complexity of its characters and the intelligence of its audience.

The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game

Blues songs, like folk songs, are a continuous stream, and catching the continuities and thefts is part of what puts meaning and complexity into it - also part of the fun of it all.

Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.

Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.

Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.

A lot of guys see the complexity of the game; I see the simplicity.

Every movie has its complexities and its challenges.

I will resist the urge to underestimate the complexity of knitting.

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.

Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.

Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.

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

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

I truly think any preparation you do only helps and adds dimension and complexity to the work [as an actor].

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.