“Ronald Reagan was one of our great foreign policy Presidents. He did not come from the Senate. He did not come from the foreign policy world. He was a governor, but his resolve, his clarity of purpose, his intelligence, his capacity to deal with complex issues and solve tough problems served him extremely well, and if I were elected President, I hope I could rely upon those same qualities.” IfsWorldWellsProblemPurposePresidentDealsQualityIssuesPolicyToughCapacityComplexesSolveClarityRelyResolveSenateForeign PolicyGovernorsRely UponClarity Of PurposeTough Problems Author:Mitt Romney
“You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.” NeedsJobsSocialDealsSecurityCircumstancesComplexesProtectionSocial SecuritySubsistence Author:Ulrich Beck
“Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the events to be accounted for about which we can get quantitative data are necessarily limited and may not include the important ones.” MayImportantDealsEventsPositionDisciplineAspectEconomicsComplexesDataPhenomenonPhysical Science Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The deep paradox uncovered by AI research: the only way to deal efficiently with very complex problems is to move away from pure logic.... Most of the time, reaching the right decision requires little reasoning.... Expert systems are, thus, not about reasoning: they are about knowing.... Reasoning takes time, so we try to do it as seldom as possible. Instead we store the results of our reasoning for later reference.” WayTryingLittlesProblemMovingDecisionResultsDealsKnowingPureResearchLogicComplexesStoresExpertsReasoningReachingParadoxArtificial IntelligenceTake TimeRight DecisionComplex Problems Author:Daniel Crevier
“Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.” ThinkingLittlesMadeAbleRememberProcessDealsFashionSourceLoversAgingSilentComplexesLegsTailsNegotiationBargainsFrogsMermaidRemember SomethingTadpoles Author:Rae Armantrout
“There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our opportunities for ignorance. There are more things not to know. ... The machinery that we deal with is so much more complex that it is possible to become dysfunctional at a much higher level of performance.” KnowsWorldOpportunityLevelsDealsProgressGenerationsInformationIgnoranceHigherPerformancesComplexesMachineryHigher Level Book:Making Sense Source: Making Sense
“I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure what they want to do with themselves, hesitate because they have a great deal more to deal with. A nature rich in fine and complex possibilities takes more time to dispose of itself, but when it does, the world's beauty is the gainer.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantDoeDealsRichPossibilityFineComplexesUncertaintyComplexityMore TimeNarrow-minded Book:The Bent Twig Source: The Bent Twig
“When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Because this is so, there is a basic esthetic limitation on what can be done with cities: a city cannot be a work of art.” ArtDoneDealsCitiesComplexesIntenseLimitationWorks Of ArtDealing With Life Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can occur but once in their detailed glory. And for those kinds of sciences, be it cosmology, or evolutionary biology, or geology, or palaeontology, the experimental methods, simplification, quantification, prediction and repetition of the experimental sciences don't always work. You have to go with the narrative, the descriptive methods of what? Of historians.” KindWholeDealsEventsGloryMethodComplexesNarrativeRangeBiologyHistorianRepetitionPredictionsCosmologyGeologyReconstructionSimplificationEvolutionary BiologyExperimental Science Author:Richard Lewontin
“Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex.” PeopleIfsMenBelieveHelpingI BelieveDealsCommonModernConceptsMathematicsComplexesFinancialFamiliarMathematicalModern LifeCommon ManGroundingFinancial Markets Author:Viswanathan Anand
“A new world of complex relationships and feelings opens up when the peer group takes its place alongside the family as the emotional focus of the child's life. Early peer relationships contribute significantly to the child's ability to participate in a group (and in that sense, society), deal with competition and disappointment, enjoy the intimacy of friendships, and intuitively understand social relationships as they play out at school, in the neighborhood, and later in the workplace and adult family.” WorldChildrenPlayFeelingsSchoolSocialEnjoyAbilityDealsFocusGroupsEmotionalAdultsCompetitionComplexesDisappointmentIntimacyNeighborhoodNew WorldPeersWorkplaceSocial RelationshipsPeer GroupComplex Relationships Author:Stanley Greenspan
“At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a gradually awakening consciousness of the presence of new families of differentiating-out challenging concepts of every day prominence. It is with these randomly patterning families of separate concepts that evolution is about to deal integratively. As a now specific unitary problem it may be disposed of effectively when and if that unified problem becomes "adequately stated" and thereby comprehensibly solvable.” IfsFirstsMayProblemChallengesDealsConsciousnessKnownEventsEvolutionIntellectualConceptsComplexesAwakeningWeatherUnifiedProminenceConfluenceNew Family Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantFeelsWritingTryingBookSometimesStoriesFormYoungEnjoyPleasureDealsEmotionLaughingIssuesRichMysteryStyleAdventureReaderAdultsComplexesSatisfactionSuspenseNarrativeIronyRelyContradictionResolveEngagementSheerImageryAmbiguityTextureGood StoryThrillersGood Reads Author:Avi
“My dad kept me away from people who treat children wrong. It's just amazing that there is such a way to raise a person without giving them complexes. But nobody does it. They think it should be the old school. But look at the products. Wouldn't it be great if you could avoid the complexes? Then you could deal with the complexes of life.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayGivingShouldLooksChildrenPersonsDoeSchoolDealsProductsDadTreatsRaisesComplexesMy DadOld School Author:Juliette Lewis
“Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books.” NeedsKindChildrenBookMotherStuffDealsProveAdultsRaisedComplexesTraditionalBehaveHistory BooksProving YourselfTraditional Family Author:Rita Dove