Complexity Quotes - Page 13

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

  David Allen

  Giving, Focus, Doe

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• The Talker needs attention. The Talker needs validation. The Talker would rather talk about an idea than confront the complexities, its obstacles. The Talker wants the glory but none of the hard work.

  Jack Heffron

  Hard Work, Validation, Ideas

  Jack Heffron (2012). “The Writer's Idea Book 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Develop Great Ideas for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Screenplays”, p.13, Writer's Digest Books

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• I don't have children of my own so I can't say I know the plight of being a parent, but I can kinda understand some of the complexities of it.

  Joy Bryant

  Children, Parent, Plight

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• Finally one should add that in spite of the great complexity of protein synthesis and in spite of the considerable technical difficulties in synthesizing polynucleotides with defined sequences it is not unreasonable to hope that all these points will be clarified in the near future, and that the genetic code will be completely established on a sound experimental basis within a few years.

  Francis Crick

  Dna, Years, Sound

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• Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

  Michael Dirda

  Writing, Editing, Faithful

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• The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on complexity; all Internet standards become festooned with complicating option sets that no one person can know in their entirety. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on insufficient investment; safety review for open source code is rarely funded, nor sustainable when it is. The Heartbleed problem can be blamed on poor planning; wide deployment within critical functions but without any repair regime.

  Dan Geer

  Heart, Safety, Deployment

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• The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity and its centrality . . . the overthrow of equilibrium, detaching the mind, furfilled at last, from its material matrix, so that it will henceforth rest with all its weight on God-Omega . . . critical point simultaneously of emergence and emersion, of maturation and evasion.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Mind, End Of The World, Lasts

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (pp. 273, 287 - 289), 1955.

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

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Joy, Needs, Increase

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• Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials; get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the question what business has it to be there?, avoid complexities, and make everything as simple as possible.

  Henry Maudslay

  Science, Simple, Engineering

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• Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Growth, Progress, Doe

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• Why do any of us act the way we do? Is it our beliefs or our biology that shapes us? Lauren Grodstein considers this eternal question through the story of Andrew Waite, scientist, father, widower, struggling to raise two daughters, living with the ghost of his wife, facing a test of his faith in science. There are no easy answers here, just the honest complexity of human beings trying their best to be good people. The Explanation for Everything is moving, beautiful, and wonderfully funny.

  Victor LaValle

  Beautiful, Daughter, Father

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• Simplicity is complexity resolved

  Constantin Brancusi

  Simplicity

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• We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Home, Thinking, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.52, New World Library

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• The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

  Bill Gates

  Block, Caring, Impact

  Bill Gates' Commencement Address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. June 7, 2007.

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• It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

  Wendell Berry

  Agriculture, Understanding, Agribusiness

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.71, Counterpoint

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• I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

  Gordon Willis

  Simple, Way, Human Nature

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• Complexity is the enemy of execution!

  Tony Robbins

  Enemy, Execution

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2016

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• Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

  Stephen Covey

  Simplicity, Principles, Sides

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Intriguing, Trouble, Intellect

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• The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know what will be the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know what will be the consequences of good fortune.

  Alan Watts

  Impossible, Process, Fortune

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• Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Simple, Simplicity, Jargon

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• I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

  Anne Stevenson

  Marriage, Book, Years

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• One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.

  Tim Burton

  Passion, Trying, Quality

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• Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

  Mark Helprin

  Fighting, Justice, World

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.288, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, Trying, Degrees

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