Quotes about simple
simple thinking civilization
The greatest threat to civility - and ultimately civilization - is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now by people who think that the world and their duties in it are clear and simple. They are certain that they know what - who - created the universe and what this creator wants them to do to make our little speck in the universe perfect, even if extreme measures - even violence - are required. George Will
simple improvement individual
Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life...
simple people made
Plans must be simple and flexible....They must be made by the people who execute them. George S. Patton
simple law special
Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction Jeff Miller
simple too-much needs
There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images... Jean-Luc Godard
simple shopping luxury
People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it. Friedrich Nietzsche
simple guitar gigs
Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front. George Benson
simple ideas mind
Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. George Berkeley
simple saving twenties
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings. George Bernard Shaw
simple reality firsts
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. Galileo Galilei
simple thinking fiction
The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction that puts nothingness as existing and proposes nothing more than simple noncontradiciton?
simple secret important
Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living. Erich Maria Remarque
simple love-is thinking
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult. Erich Fromm
simple actors television
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple. Erica Jong
simple hunger eating
Eating is never so simple as hunger.
simple simplicity style
What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple. Elsa Peretti
simple
It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something. Jasper Johns
simple satisfaction-in-life feet
I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy. Jasper Carrott
simple ifs
If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad — Jasper Fforde
simple adequate execution
Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner can prove that he is innocent. The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder. Harry A. Blackmun
simple creating people
Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing. Guy Laliberte
simple competition microsoft
If you truly don't have competition, then zoom out until you can define some. Competition can be as simple as the reliance on the status quo, Microsoft (since at some point Microsoft will compete with everyone for everything), or researchers in universities. Pick something, because saying you have no competition at all is a nonstarter. Guy Kawasaki
simple trying doe
Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.
simple medicine subsidies
I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries. Greg Fitzsimmons
simple principles habitat
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet. Greg Graffin
simple computer programming
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. Grady Booch
simple rocks talking
The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don't stand back and wonder what it is. That's Jim Morrison, that's a panda, that's a scene on the West Coast. It's not abstract. Grace Slick
simple ideas government
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. Harry Browne
simple average two
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn carry the hybrid trait (Aa), the other half, however, receive the parental traits A and a in equal amounts. Thus, on the average, among four plants two have the hybrid trait Aa, one the parental trait A, and the other the parental trait a. Therefore, 2Aa+ A +a or A + 2Aa + a is the empirical simple series for two differing traits. Gregor Mendel
simple everyday different
How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it everyday.Your health account is no different. What I do today, I am wearing tomorrow. If I put inferior foods in my body today, I'm going to be inferior tomorrow, it's that simple. Jack LaLanne
simple religion utterance
The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains. J. I. Packer
simple world today
Today, making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult. Jack Ma
simple time
I think there are too many (US) recommendations. At the same time it's very simple because they (the Americans) are deleting everything.