Complexity Quotes
613 quotes by 504 authors
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The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to…
— Adrienne Rich
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I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it.…
— Gregory Maguire
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I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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This approach to voice is designed to liberate the natural voice and thereby develop a vocal technique that serves the freedom of human expression. The…
— Kristin Linklater
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A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.
— Freeman Dyson
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The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural…
— Kenny Smith
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Linear programming can be viewed as part of a great revolutionary development which has given mankind the ability to state general goals and to lay…
— George Dantzig
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It's not that we need to form new organizations. It's simply that we have to awaken to new ways of thinking. I believe it makes…
— Don Edward Beck
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The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the…
— Ella Leya
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Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.
— Robin Sharma
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All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.
— Thomas Sowell
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Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
— R. Scott Bakker
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With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less…
— Clay Shirky
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My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
— Jack Dorsey
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Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.
— Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in…
— Israel Zangwill
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My early self-portraits appeared effortlessly and seemed like equivalents for my deeper emotions. Many critics remarked that the images had an almost other-worldly haunting presence.…
— Joyce Tenneson
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Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity…
— Robert David Steele
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When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity…
— Genevieve Gorder
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