“I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?” ThinkingOpportunitySimpleAnswersCommonAttitudeLibertyHavensColdSpreadFree WillRight AnswersUnderminingImpliedCommon Cold Book:Stand on Zanzibar Source: Stand on Zanzibar
“You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.” KnowsTryingDoneEnoughStuffHoursSleepSimpleHavensGeniusGet BetterEndeavorSimple ThingsBrainless Author:Randy Newman
“It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.” SimpleHavensDisciplineArmy Author:Edmund H. North
“I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims that there is no conflict between his love of country and his desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: “You're mistaken.” And, therefore, I'm thinking of adding this corollary to my General Rule of patriotism: The more intellectually consistent and pro-U.N. you are, the less patriotic you are likely to be. I haven't thought that all the way through, but it seems right to me.” ThinkingWayCountrySeemsDesireNationsSimpleAnswersUnitedFateHavensConflictClaimsConsistentPatrioticPatriotMistakenUnited NationsHis LoveAmerican Patriot Author:Jonah Goldberg
“If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.” IfsWritingTwoUseActionOrderThreeStuffSimpleForgetBusinessTakenWrittenWeekHavensValuableCardsProductiveAssetsForget It Author:Seth Godin
“To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. The web model is just so much more complicated, and involves this third party of advertisers, and all these other sources of revenue that are sort of provisional, but haven't been proven yet.” SimplePartyPaySupportHavensSourceReaderModelsThirdsDollarsComplicatedEnterprisePrintProvenRevenueBusiness ModelsAdvertisersThird Parties Author:Dave Eggers
“You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.” PeopleIfsWantGivingFirstsWellsLooksPersonsNextInterestSimpleSecretHavensLessonsProveTreatsReactionsNervousToneColourUnbelievableProve It Author:Winston Churchill
“When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful that they haven't been made lords. Though powerful and rich, their attitude is that of beggars. For those who know how to be content, simple fare is more delicious than rich delicacies, a cloth coat is warmer than fox fur, and an ordinary citizen does not defer to a king or a lord.” PeopleKnowsDoeMadeGivenSimplePowerfulAttitudeLordKnow HowRichHavensKingsCitizensOrdinaryGoldBitterTaoismFoxesCoatsGreedyDeliciousJewelsBeggarFurDelicacyResentfulOrdinary CitizensGreedy People Author:Zicheng Hong
“There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business.” DoneUseCoursesStuffSimpleHavensPaintingCamerasClubsColumbia Author:Garry Winogrand