Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Alan Perlis

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Bertolt Brecht

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Agnes Repplier

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity of approach is always best.

Charles Lamb

Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

Charles Sanders Peirce

There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.

Carl Jung

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

Deepak Chopra

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

Chinua Achebe

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

Mark Cuban

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

Beth Moore

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.

Bernard Malamud

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Benjamin Hoff

Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

Bob Marley

Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.

Madeleine Albright

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

William Shakespeare

Every why has a wherefore.

Billy Sherwood

So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

Alanis Morissette

I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.

Chris Copeland

Keep being aggressive, that's what my teammates and my coaches ask me to do. If I see things are going well, I know there's more of a comfort level for me to continue to do that.

Chogyam Trungpa

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Ben Whishaw

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

August Strindberg

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

Tom Robinson

We have never operated outside permit levels at the plant.

Cheryl Richardson

There are no coincidences. Every event we experience and every person we meet has intentionally been put in our path to help raise our level of consciousness .

Charles Simic

The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.