“If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude. Like the color white that includes all colors, they tend to bring together the entire range of human possibilities within themselves. Creativity allows for paradox, light, shadow, inconsistency, even chaos -and creative people experience both extremes with equal intensity.” PeopleIfsHumansDifferentLightTogetherIndividualWhiteCreativityCreativePossibilityColorEqualShadowChaosExtremesRangeComplexityParadoxIntensityMultitudesOne WordCreative PeopleInconsistencyColor White Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.” HumansPersonsMadeIndividualSimpleAnswersRaceSituationCryIndiaSouthRaisedComplexesExcuseThese DaysHuman RaceComplexityStride Author:Pearl S. Buck
“The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life, their forms of expression become more complex.” ShowsSpiritualFormArtistIndividualGrowthCreativeProgressExpressionComplexesComplexitySpiritual GrowthInner Life Author:Mieczyslaw Jastrun
“I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.” ThinkingIndividualTeamMedicineExtremesHandleComplexityClinicians Author:Atul Gawande
“We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.” NeedsSelfHumanityIndividualProcessBrainComplexityChemicalsExceedProcessingArts And Humanities Book:Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London Source: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
“By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence.” MayIndividualBeliefGivenObjectsPureDegreesEssenceUniversalRelationDefinitionsComplexity Author:George Santayana