Quotes about Complexity

Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.

Successful leaders are like icebergs. When you look at an iceberg, you see only about 10 percent of it, and the rest of it is hidden under the water. When you look at successful leaders, you see only a fraction of their lives. You see the part that looks really good, but there's usually a lot that remains hidden that's neither exciting nor glamorous.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple. —John C. Maxwell

Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.

Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.

Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated.

It is poor philosophy to say we will believe nothing unless we can understand everything!

But in the end, one-sided views make for pretty flat-looking works of art.

Constant reminders that love is doubly edged with the most beautiful potential and the most dangerous pain.

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad--and what she has is always a package deal of both.

Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.

there are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side.