Complexity Quotes - Page 28

• We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

  Ben Whishaw

  People, Simplicity, Reactions

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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• The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Smell, Definitions, Information

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Past, Hands, Errors

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• The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life, their forms of expression become more complex.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Spiritual, Artist, Expression

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• Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.

  Kim Hee-jin

  Enlightenment, Overcoming, Way

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• There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bushs presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted from the gut, and was economical with the truth until it disappeared.

  Teju Cole

  War, Years, Feelings

  Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.180, Faber & Faber

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• Thai food ain't about simplicity. It's about the juggling of disparate elements to create a harmonious finish. Like a complex musical chord it's got to have a smooth surface but it doesn't matter what's happening underneath. Simplicity isn't the dictum here, at all. Some westerners think it's a jumble of flavours, but to a Thai that's important, it's the complexity they delight in.

  David

  Thinking, Simplicity, Musical

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• Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Important, Needs

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already.

  Ken MacLeod

  War, Character, Men

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• Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.

  Umberto Eco

  Thinking, Stones, Way

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• Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.

  Jack Welch

  Book, Insecure, Simple

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• The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Molecules, Geometry, Whole

  Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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• I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English degree and/or creative writing degree you'll say: Continue my bookish examination of the contradictions and complexities of human motivation and desire; or maybe just: Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters. And then smile very serenely until they say, Oh.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Motivation, Writing, People

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.98, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech, it shows how clueless she is about how the economy actually works.

  Carly Fiorina

  Clueless, Speech, Financial

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

  Hilary Liftin

  Real, Thinking, Compassion

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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• I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

  Mary Karr

  Writing, People, Psychological

  Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

  Aberjhani

  Tears, Deeper, Agree

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• Delicious... Everything I'd hoped for in a new Wild Cards book. The character interactions and plot twists have exactly the complexity, surprise, and unsentimental realism I'd expect out of a George R. R. Martin project.

  Austin Grossman

  Book, Character, Twists

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• If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

  Charles Jencks

  Self, Tree, Looks

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• The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

  Susan Choi

  World, Overwhelming

  "Antiwar Activism, Starring Patty Hearst". Interview with Lynn Andriani, www.publishersweekly.com. June 23, 2003.

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• The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us not as liberated but enslaved.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Men, Law, Ideas

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• Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

  Yuri Lotman

  Poetry, Simplicity, Literature

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• Personalities are like impressionistic paintings. At a distance, each person is 'all of a piece'; up close, each is a bewildering complexity of moods, cognitions, and motives.

  Theodore Millon

  Distance, Personality, Pieces

  Theodore Millon, Roger Dale Davis (1996). “Disorders of personality: DSM-IV and beyond”, Wiley

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• Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature.... Without causation, nothing happens and without organization by an intelligent being, systems tend to lower and lower levels of complexity.

  Hugh Ross

  Intelligent, Self, Organization

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• I love women because of their spirit, courage, and the things they go through in the process of family and life and then all the complexities and now the careers of the family and life and the whole thing. But I feel badly for our men in all of our traditions.

  Maya Tiwari

  Men, Careers, Spirit

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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