Quotes about Complexity
You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There's not one part that He doesn't want to make completely whole.
- Joyce Meyer
My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
- Virginia Woolf
Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.
- Bill Gates
Human nature consists of knobs and of mechanisms for tuning the knobs, and both are invisible in their own way.
- Robert Wright
We have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?
- Ronald Reagan
If people take seriously doctrines such as the divinity of Christ, it is not primarily because they can treat them as if they were tidy conclusions to an argument, deductions from readily available evidence, but because — however obscurely they are grasped, however challenging the detail — they see that the language of doctrine holds together a set of intractably complex questions in a way that offers a coherent context for human living.
- Rowan Williams
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
- Paul Tillich
I think she thought she love him. But he got so many of us. All needing somethin'.
- Alice Walker
An American, I said, sighing, but understanding my love of my adopted country perhaps for the first time: an American looks like a wounded person whose wound is hidden from others, and sometimes from herself. An American looks like me.
- Alice Walker
The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.
- Joe Biden
It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life. Make things as simple as possible..but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein