Complexity Thinking Quotes

I think the next century will be the century of complexity. ~ Stephen Hawking

Wishing the world was predictable an controllable does not make it so, and it might make us disregard what is actually happening ~ Jean G. Boulton

Complexity Thinking is best thought of as a way of continually generating multiple perspectives on issues. ~ Pearl Zhu

I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it. ~ Adam Sandler

I think the ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world. ~ Mohamed ElBaradei

Think of those who think of you for they're thinking of you as you think of them thinking of you. Good night!!!!!!!!!!! ~ Mii Juan Yu

I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all. ~ Sinead O'Connor

One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids. ~ Bobby Schilling

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design. ~ John French Sloan

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways. ~ Rita Mae Brown

The inherent non-linearity of the digital allows for more input from others, including the subject and reader as collaborators. The top-down, bedtime-style story is of limited use. A non-linear narrative that allows for increased complexity and depth, and encourages both subject and reader to have greater involvement, will eventually emerge more fully from the digital environment. This, in a sense, is the more profound democratization of media. ~ Fred Ritchin

I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice. ~ Phil Jackson

Tryna forgive you for abandonin me Prayin but I think I'm still an angel away ~ Nicki Minaj

We laughed a lot. That's one thing we forgot about for a few years - laughing. When we went through all the lawsuits, it looked as if everything was bleak, but when I think back to before that, I remember we used to laugh all the time. ~ George Harrison

I think that everybody in life probably goes through obstacles at different times in life. I wouldn't really call them obstacles, I think that's just called growing up, and I think it's hard to be in the industry at such a young age ~ Kirsten Dunst

I think no more of taking another wife than I do of buying a cow. ~ Heber C. Kimball

One must not align himself with the beliefs that limit his thinking; free from all beliefs and superstitions; we all make difference. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

The precondition for thinking politically on a global scale is to see the unity of the unnecessary suffering taking place. * ~ John Berger

Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once. That's the thing. You know, I think that's particularly pertinent with Justin [Bieber] because, like, you just forget how young he is. ~ James Corden

I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a dark comedy about infidelity, for example! ~ Kit Williamson

I think when you're 25 you're still finding yourself, and you should have the freedom of that. ~ Sarah Silverman

I have a power word that I use-when I qualified for the Olympics in 2008, it was fighter. That way when I'm in the race and I get to those dark moments, I can think of the word and it evokes that emotion for me. ~ Kara Goucher

I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball. ~ Jay Mohr

I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose. ~ Eric Davis

I've basically been able to do everything, I basically run my own career and the decisions I make - whether it's how I'm gonna roll out music, how I'm gonna play on tours, different strategies for releasing and marketing things - and that comes from being college educated and someone who's interested in that side of the business rather than only the music. If anything I think that's where the biggest direct influence comes from. ~ Hoodie Allen

His performance was also intensely visual, with his volatile movements in front of the piano, and his cries and wild vocal accompaniment to his playing, all of which spoke eloquently of his extraordinary passion for the instrument and the music he coaxed, tickled and sometimes pounded out of him. Many critics were put off by all this, thinking it was a mere outward show- and therefore insincere. In fact it is an essential part of music-making for Jarrett, his way of achieving his state of grace… the ecstasy of inspiration. Miles Davis understood that immediately, and so did most other musicians. Jack DeJohonette says: "The one thing that struck me about Keith, that made him stand out from other players, was that he really has a love affair with the piano, it's a relationship with that instrument… Keith's hands are actually quire small but because of that he can do things that a person like myself, or other pianists with normal hand spans, can't do… it enables him to overlap certain chord sequences and do rhythmic things and contrapuntal lines and get these effects of like, four people playing the piano… But I've never seen anybody just have such a rapport with their instrument and know its limitations but also push them to the limits, transcend the instrument – which is what I try and do with the drums as well. ~ Ian Carr

I think we explored the further reaches of 'for better or for worse' than some other married couples. ~ Mary Archer

Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?"
"Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth."
"Oh, you say that when you don't get a prize in your Lucky Charms. ~ MaryJanice Davidson

Think it's easy to find girls in climates where their bodies are exposed. Obviously, if you go scouting in Alaska, you're not going to find anybody because they're always covered up. Anywhere there's a beach is great for scouting. And state fairs. I've gone to a lot of state fairs. ~ Michael Flutie

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it. ~ Karen Armstrong

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience. ~ Sophia Bush

I bought an insurance policy covering the inheritance tax my kids will have to pay when we die, which I thought was a good bit of forward thinking. And I always know I'm going to have enough for tax because I make sure I keep it back in my business account. ~ Mark Billingham

I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style. ~ Marc Almond

Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious. ~ Pierre Corneille

My birthday is October 10. I like my birthday: 10/10. It would've been great if I'd been born at exactly 10:10 in the morning or at night, but I wasn't. I was born just after midnight. But I still thinking my birthday is cool. ~ R.J. Palacio

Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don't you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct. ~ Robert Frost

When you smile I want to do awful things to you," Oliver said, leering wolfishly.
"A lucky coincidence, because when I'm smiling it's because I'm thinking of you doing filthy things to me." Jack grinned back at him. ~ Cat Sebastian

Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily. ~ Sivananda

If drumsticks are for playing drums, you would think that breadsticks would be for playing bread, wouldn't you? "Would you like some breadsticks?" "No, thank you, I don't play bread. I play drums. Perhaps I'll have a drum roll." ~ George Carlin

Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do. ~ Xavier Dolan

Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational. ~ Ben Macintyre

As a rule people don't think other people on drugs are funny. They think they are tragic. They have a point, but I still had the funny. ~ Natasha Lyonne

I think people fancy me. They can't figure me out. I'm an attractive guy. I make good money and I score goals. I'm the kind of guy I believe people love. And, at the same time, they can't figure out why they love me so much, so they decide to hate me. ~ Jeff Cunningham

I think Hollywood, as it's been, will have to change because the model of Hollywood is "we'll make this content, and you guys buy it," but I don't think that's the future. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money. ~ Jens Lekman

The aim of any practice of concentration and meditation is to free the aspirant from his usual way of thinking, feeling and being, so that he manages to become aware of himself in a manner which is totally different from the way he is normally.
This self-awareness, inaccessible to the seeker in his ordinary state of being, is closely linked with a very special inner presence which is liberating, transforming and therapeutic at the same time. ~ Edward Salim Michael

Your role out there is to give something back, guide the way forward... Maybe, just maybe if you spent a little less time looking out for yourself and a little more time thinking about... no, scratch that, just thinking would be a start. ~ Trevor Alan Foris