Complex Situations Quotes

Every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

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.

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.

I don't do quagmires.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job. There are so many decisions that law enforcement officers have to make, and the incident or situation changes so much from moment to moment and day to day. I have a lot of respect for officers and what they go through.

My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.

Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

I never think in metaphors or fully make those kind of associations myself. I just lay down a complex situation and hope things arise from that.

Any time you're in a maze there's multiple ways to get to the end.

The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

I want my games to teach a message about life, by presenting situations where the answer isn't a clear yes or no.

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.

Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.

Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.