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Quote by Stephen Mitchell

“When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.”

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Stephen Mitchell is a renowned American poet, born in 1943. His poetry is known for its profound emotion and unique style, which has won him a wide audience. more

“Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.”

Values Fall Sex Conditions Objects Simplicity Patterns Entertainment Substance Diets Toxic Quantity Organisms Items Sequence Deprived Temperature Variables Optimum

Author:Gregory Bateson

“Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.”

Ifs Men Want Dies Simplicity Complicated Organisms Doomed Extinction Simple Life

Author:Ezra Pound

“Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.”

Simple Simplicity

Author:Jim Horning

“In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.”

Thinking Firsts Use Situation Moral Plans Fit Models Increase Simplicity Sentences Experiments Data Analysis Complexity Single Sentence

Author:John Tukey

“What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.”

Ifs Firsts Chance Forever Sky Return Asking Simplicity Spending Take Me Goodwill

Book:Walt Whitman's

Source: Walt Whitman's

“Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.”

Persons Two Feelings Concern Wings Intention Simplicity Lifts Purity Purity Of Intention

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.”

Knows Grows Failing Simplicity Cease Miraculous

Author:e. e. cummings

“He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.”

Work Simplicity Idleness Aptitude

Author:Louise Wilder

“Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.”

World Lasts Simple Pleasure Healthy Complexes Simplicity Refuge Simple Pleasures

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.”

Mark Simplicity Distinction Truest

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

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