Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

Wayne Dyer

You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn’t take any talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

Nelson Goodman

For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

Linda McCartney

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

Leo Tolstoy

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

Lee Smolin

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.

Joshua Reynolds

Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

Paul Desmond

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

Obie Trice

I would love to get with somebody who knows the fundamentals of making the movie, then get my money up and start getting into that.

Joanna Newsom

There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love with.

Jim Rohn

There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

Antonio Tabucchi

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Bob Brown

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Donna Dubinsky

It strikes at a fundamental human need to be organized.

Donald Luskin

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

David Antin

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

Reed Hastings

Don’t get distracted by the shiny object [and if a crisis comes], execute on the fundamentals.

Emile M. Cioran

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Arianna Huffington

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

Viktor E. Frankl

Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

Gerry Spence

Today the insatiable quest for profit promotes the new slavery. In bewildering ways, the new is more pernicious than the old, for the New American Slave is told he is free, and he clings to that myth as if his life depended upon it, a suspicion that cannot be totally ignored.

Hannah Arendt

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The realm of Suaron is ended!' said Gandalf. 'The Ring-bearer has fulfilled his Quest

Isaac Asimov

Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.