Quotes about simple
simple want belief
There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are. Kevin Smith
simple long people
At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them. Kevin Spacey
simple years soul
You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul. Kevin Brockmeier
simple guy gutters
I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered. Kelli Garner
simple years wind
It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do. Kurt Busiek
simple ordinary-things my-family
I'm a pretty uncomplicated person. I live a very simple life with my family and I enjoy very ordinary things. Khaled Hosseini
simple men hands
Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand...well, God put a lot of thought into making you.
simple waiting faces
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
simple clouds people
Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain. Jonathan Nolan
simple people different
Secularism is a term interpreted in many different ways by different people. For me, it has always been something very simple - putting India First Narendra Modi
simple government america
The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . . . [In] the formation of the American governments . . . it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven. . . . These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses. John Adams
simple earthquakes despair
Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?
simple organization
For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple. Jack Welch
simple decision design
Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.
simple rejection rejected
When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that. Harvey Mackay
simple golden networking
My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.
simple world needs
We all enter the world with fairly simple needs: to be protected, to be nurtured, to be loved unconditionally, and to belong.
simple law world
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it. James Allen
simple stories moral
The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so. James Anthony Froude
simple greatness law
True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.
simple two categories
You can’t just lump things into two categories. Things aren’t that simple. Jake Gyllenhaal
simple pbs florida
I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food. Jacques Pepin
simple people kites
You can teach people specific reasoning, such as how to fly a kite or build a wheel. General reasoning cannot be imparted upon people, particularly if they like things the way they are - meaning, if their reactions are very simple. The reason most people behave badly or poorly is because they only understand simple things. Jacque Fresco
simple one-day zeppelins
'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that. Henry Rollins
simple simplicity needs
The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition. Henry B. Eyring
simple men complicated
The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man. Henry Adams
simple artist ideas
The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so much rubbish. If acting were just a matter of experience, then any busy harlot could make Garbo's Camille pale. Helen Hayes
simple government organization
To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those necessary to the common welfare, and in all its parts it should be kept as close to the people and as directly within their control as may be. Henry George
simple years judging
A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it. Helmut Jahn
simple self two
The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life. Henepola Gunaratana
simple men poetry
Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. Henry David Thoreau
simple two simplicity
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
simple clouds world
Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.