Complexity Quotes · Page 13

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

— Rollo May

We must do our best to raise the public awareness of the past in all its richness and complexity.

— Margaret MacMillan

All it takes is one guy to change a locker room. To change the complexity or nature of an atmosphere.

— Mojo Rawley

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

— Brian Eno

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

— Maurice Sendak

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

— Stephen Jay Gould

I tried to develop some theories that took account of the uncertainty in the world and the complexity in the world.

— Herbert A. Simon

Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.

— David Allen

The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties…

— John Lighton Synge

I think that because most films where there's a teenager, it's aimed at a teenage audience. Restless is - I wouldn't classify…

— Mia Wasikowska

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things…

— Edward de Bono

Don't accept the excuse of complexity. A lot of people will tell you, this is too challenging, this is too complicated, yeah…

— Keith Rabois

The most important problems we face are complex, and require sustained attention. But we don't speak in terms of nuance or complexity.…

— Tristan Harris

Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals…

— George Dantzig

The continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity…

— David Eagleman

A lot of the times we don't see enough of strength. Imagery is obviously a large part of it. I think it's…

— Tika Sumpter

At the end of the day, I really go with my personal taste and with what's on the page in terms of…

— Carmen Ejogo

Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God…

— e. e. cummings

“Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time…

— Henry Spencer

“If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a…

— Blaise Pascal

Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“As a subject of behavioral study, nest architecture offers an appealing feature that practically no other behavior offer; namely, the nest is…

— Walter Tschinkel

The everyday brain could be dubbed "the baseline brain," because it operates at the minimum functioning to keep you alive and healthy.…

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Robin Sharma

I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the…

— Bjarke Ingels

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

— Richard Branson

The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100…

— Gerald Fischbach

To understand the whole it is necessary to understand the parts. To understand the parts, it is necessary to understand the whole.…

— Ken Wilber

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

— Jim Whitehurst

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

— Adrienne Rich

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

— Paul Cezanne

The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.

— Richard Dawkins

When you're in governance, you understand the limitations and the complexities of governance.

— David Brooks

O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity.

— William Carlos Williams

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity…

— Barack Obama

Gulaal' gave me a chance to channelise my restlessness into a character that had layers of complexity.

— Abhimanyu Singh

We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability…

— David Christian