Complexity Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison Download Open image “The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.” — Kay Redfield Jamison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complexity Comprehension Given Life
Life *is* complex, and, in many ways, life *is* beyond our comprehension today...Sometimes important questions have maddeningly complex or inconvenient answers that neither satisfy… — Guy P. Harrison Copy Share Image
we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time on… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying… — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them. — Tsutomu Shimomura Copy Share Image
“The idea that we can systematically understand certain aspects of the world and make predictions based on what we’ve learned, while appreciating and categorizing… — John Brockman Copy Share Image
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We all think that we are uniquely complex, that no one can see what we are thinking - yet we also believe that we… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“...even though [my psychiatrist] understood mor than anyone how much I felt I was losing--in energy, vivacity, and originality--by taking medication, he never was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I wish I could explain it so someone could understand it. I'm afraid it's something I can't put into words. There's just this heavy,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it… If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
From the 1990s onward, the financial sector created a vast array of instruments designed to separate investors from their money, financial derivatives of an… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers. — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The complexity increases exponentially when you try and combine two companies that both need to be restructured in their own right. — Ted Waitt Copy Share Image
We're in this strange age where we can't say 'I love you,' at least not sincerely. It's something where, if you simplify it, the… — Christoffer Boe Copy Share Image
I've realized that life is indeed full of contradictions. Sometimes its crazy to be sane.You need to fall to fly. People suffer because you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie. — Jan de Bont Copy Share Image
The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do. — Fernando Perez Copy Share Image
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