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“The camera can capture thought in a way that's quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your work and communicate a lot with just a finger or an eyebrow, or a look, or a glance.”

Way Looks Simple Cameras Fingers Communicate Capture Surprising Glances Shocking Eyebrows

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“Isn't it interesting that in Acts 11, at the end of verse 26, it says, "The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch." What I find interesting is the simple thought that the Christians didn't name themselves. But rather, they were called (or named) "Christians" by those watching their lives. I wonder if it would be the same today. Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Ends Would Be Today Christian Names Simple Interesting Wonder Verses Disciple Humbling Bible Verse Bible Stories Simple Thoughts Antioch

Author:Chris Tomlin

“Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.”

Trying House Simple Walks Doors Fronts Keys Exercise Tasks Series Shoes Get Up Ipods Front Doors

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.”

Simple Secret Survival Adaptability

Book:Dogeaters: A Novel

Source: Dogeaters: A Novel

“Nothing is more complicated than sex. Nor anything so beautifully simple.”

Sex Simple Complicated

Author:Iris Johansen

“Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.”

Home Easy Simple Results Family Patterns Definitions Traditional Guarantees Conformity

Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.”

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Book:The Quality of Mercy

Source: The Quality of Mercy

“As my guests leave even my most simple parties, I consistently hear the same thing: 'That was the best time I ever had,' and it's always me saying it. But I do know in my heart they all feel the same way, probably.”

Knows Way Feels Heart Simple Party My Heart Guests Consistently Hospitality Best Times

Author:Amy Sedaris

“Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy--its figures, its trees, or its palaces,--without a spot.”

Giving Doe Eye Simple Forget Views Tree Style Figures Fine Pure Window Spots Landscape Fancy Display Observers Palaces

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.”

Source: A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more

“Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.”

People Way Mean Reason Simple Survival Favors Oppression Oppressed Oppressors Treachery Treacherous Curry

Book:Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

Source: Southern Ladies & Gentlemen

“A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.”

Night Simple Party New York Cold Afghanistan Jackets Leather Cocktails Cocktail Parties Leather Jackets Cold Night

Author:Ronan Farrow

“If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.”

People Ifs Together Easy Simple Principles Design Starting

Author:Bill Moggridge

“The West has funded the war against itself by buying Arab oil. It is as simple and as tragic as that.”

War Simple West Oil Having Fun Buying Tragic

Book:An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir

Source: An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir

“The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success--all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way.”

“Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le complique . Truth is too simple; it must always be arrived at in a complicated manner.”

Simple Truth Is Complicated

Author:Sydney Samuelson

“Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.”

Simple Pleasure Cat Ice Cream Showers Ice Cream Uncomplicated

Book:The Burning Point

Source: The Burning Point

“The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.”

Humans Made Simple Complexity Steel Human Relations Human Relationships Intricate Complexity Of Human

Author:Mignon G. Eberhart

“The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.”

Source: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

“Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.”

Facts Values Simple Direct Experience Everyday Concrete Personal Experiences

Book:Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

Source: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

“The French legend is a very simple one. All really beautiful clothes are designed in the houses of the French couturiers and all women want those clothes.”

Want Beautiful House Simple Fashion Clothes France Legends Women Want Really Beautiful Beautiful Clothes

Author:Elizabeth Hawes

“[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so profound, that any attempt to present it as a unified, consistent whole, to enclose it within a rigid frame, inevitably tempts one to cheat or to falsify.”

Writing Humans Whole Life Is Simple Clear Profound Complexes Human Life Consistent Cheat Superficial Biographies Unified

Author:Iris Origo

“Single parenthood is hard, but it's simple too. You just do everything yourself.”

Hard Simple Parenthood Single Parent

Author:Amy Dickinson

“The goal of feminist spirituality has never been the simple substitution of Yahweh-with-a-skirt. Rather, it seeks, in all its diversity, to revitalize relational, body-honoring, cosmologically grounded spiritual possibilities for women and all others.”

Body Spiritual Spirituality Goal Simple Possibility Diversity Feminist Grounded Skirts Substitution Yahweh

Author:Charlene Spretnak

“Faith without works is not faith at all, but a simple lack of obedience to God.”

Simple Obedience Obedience To God

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.”

Simple Clear Materials Simplicity Spares

Author:Peter Matthiessen

“S. E. Smith's I Live in a Hut has a deceptively simple title, considering that the brain in that hut contains galaxies-worth of invention: At night when your soldiers are praying ceaselessly for less rain and more underwear my soldiers make underwear out of rain. These poems seesaw between despair and delight but delight is winning the battle. Smith is a somersaulting tightrope walker of a poet and her poems will make you look at anything and everything with new eyes: For days I tried to rub the new freckle // off my hand until I realized what it was / and began to grant it its sovereignty.”

“TEF is predicated on logic, a simple wager that every human faces: If a reasoning human being loves and values life, they will want to live as long as possible-the desire to be immortal. Nevertheless, it's impossible to know if they're going to be immortal once they die. To do nothing doesn't help the odds of attaining immortality-since it seems evident that everyone will die someday and possibly cease to exist. To try to do something scientifically constructive towards ensuring immortality beforehand is the most logical conclusion.”

“a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.”

Simple Solitude

Author:Rod Serling

“I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.”

Knows Inspiration Sound Simple Naive Music Love

Author:Moby

“I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.”

Needs Writing Mind Ends Inspiration Simple Love Is Results Studios Honestly End Results Simple Love

Author:Moby

“On all vital measures, measures necessary to protect you, the Democrats in Washington follow a simple philosophy: Just say no.”

Philosophy Simple Protect Democrat Protect You Just Say No

Author:George W. Bush

“I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.”

Thinking Way Long Stills Culture Simple Goes On Cooking Everyday Long Way Rebuilding Long Way To Go

Author:Michael Pollan

“My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.”

“The hardest thing about being a guy is that women don't accept that you really are just a simple, pathetic, labrador retriever-like creature. That we live in a world were women actually expect you to think thoughtful thoughts, and have real emotions, which we don't have. Having to try to live up to the imaginary ideal that women have of what men are, instead of just being what you are, which is just a pathetic creature, but still.”

Thinking Men World Trying Stills Real Guy Simple Emotion Accepting Creatures Ideals Hardest Thoughtful Imaginary Just Being Hardest Thing Pathetic Retrievers Real Emotion Labradors

Author:Dave Barry

“I have an argument that to master any field, it's simple: it's a function of time. How much you devote yourself to the process, how much experience you get, how much you're willing to expand your limits, how willing you are to develop your own style. If you're willing to put 10,000 hours, something amazing is going to happen.”

Ifs Happens Process Hours Simple Style Fields Willing Masters Limits Argument Function

Author:Robert Greene

“I always look terrible before the show. That's when I feel worst. And after the show it's like a million bucks. Simple as that. You feel a little tired but you never feel better. Nothing makes me feel as good as those hours between when you walk offstage, until I go to bed. That's the hours that I live for.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully.”

Needs Humans Children Has Beens Young Simple Meditation Taught Nervous Instruction Nervous System

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves, and most people are mad at their parents. You don't have to be in denial to doubt that truths like these will set us free.”

People Two Parent Simple Doubt Movement Mad Recovery Denial Therapy Adolescence Phenomenal Simple Truths

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.”

Writing Long Inspiration Three Waiting Hours Simple Morning Intention Accomplish Get Up Every Morning Desks Recipes

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.”

Thinking States Whole Government Simple Cases Understood Relation Former Department Latter Federal Government Foreigners Subordinates

Book:The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and '99: With Jefferson's Original Draught Thereof. Also, Madison's Report, Calhoun's Address, Resolutions of the Several States in Relation to State Rights. With Other Documents in Support of the Jeffersonian Doctrines of '98

Source: The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and '99: With Jefferson's Original Draught Thereof. Also, Madison's Report, Calhoun's Address, Resolutions of the Several States in Relation to State Rights. With Other Documents in Support of the Jeffersonian Doctrines of '98

“Sex is ... scratching an itch Everything else is something we project on a very simple act. It's the psychology, not the biology, that's complicated.”

Sex Simple Psychology Projects Complicated Biology

Book:Dating For Dummies

Source: Dating For Dummies

“The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.”

Ifs Men Ideas Young Girl Strong Simple Secret Marriage Possibility Aim Mere Profession Pursuit Reasonable Inferiority Likelihood

Author:William Bolitho

“Monet, Manet, Sisley, Renoir, Van Gogh and others went outside to paint for one simple reason - it looks different outside.”

Looks Different Reason Simple Paint Vans Monet Renoir

Author:Mike Svob

“A good leader has a plan that consists of changing simple pictures. Just because a group of people has a bunch of boards, hammers, and nails does not mean that they are building a house or even anything recognizable. Sometimes leaders think they are doing their job just because there is a lot of hammering going on. As a society we like the sound of hammering, but we are uncomfortable with the sound of thinking, which is silence.”

Source: Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership

“As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me. I seem to hold thee by the gentle hand And talk of things I dimly understand, That thy dear spirit set to mine may be As to an intricate lock the simple key.”

Wells May Hands Seems Spirit Simple Walks Tree Land Mines Keys Harmony Dear Thee Gentle Locks Solemn Intricate Musings Pine Trees

Author:John Barlas

“Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.”

Men Giving Young Simple Answers Land Giving Up Young Man

Author:Munir Butt

“A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr.) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.”

Men Self Given Causes Natural Simple Sacrifice Possibility Benefits Reflection Everyday Oneself Engaged Everyday Life Self Sacrifice Donne

Author:African Spir

“Deep down, everything boils down ("au fond tout se ramène", Fr.) to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and the realization in this world of higher principles, or else do we want to serve selfish, short-sighted (à courte vue", Fr.) interests, which, when all is said and done, are also prejudicial (or detrimental, or harmful) to those very same that pursue them?”

World Want Said Done Interest Justice Simple Principles This World Higher Following Selfish Pursue Realization Deep Down Said And Done Detrimental Rams Short Sighted

Author:African Spir

“The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.”

Ifs Easy Simple Divorce Compromise Faithfulness

Book:Just Before Dawn

Source: Just Before Dawn