“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.” IfsShouldDoeDifficultGrowthProgressAchievePersonal GrowthFirmComplexityCompositionGood Business Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the ability to evaluate literature outside the critical act. A work is good only in proportion to the richness and complexity of interpretations it provokes.” LiteratureDifficultLosesAbilityCriticsCriticalComplexityProportionPoetry IsInterpretationProvokingRichnessEvaluate Book:Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture Source: Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture
“If physics is too difficult for the physicists, the nonphysicist may wonder whether he should try at all to grasp its complexities and ambiguities. It is undeniably an effort, but probably one worth making, for the basic questions are important and the new experimental results are often fascinating. And if the layman runs into serious perplexities, he can be consoled with the thought that the points which baffle him are more than likely the ones for which the professionals have not found satisfactory answers.” IfsShouldTryingMayImportantRunningFoundDifficultAnswersResultsEffortWonderSeriousPhysicsComplexityFascinatingPhysicistAmbiguityPerplexityLayman Author:Edward Condon