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“My writerly aspirations are pretty simple: to provide as many readers as possible with the same sort of wonderful immersion that I myself get from fantasy novels - and to make enough money to help feed my kids while doing so.”

Enough Helping Kids Simple Fantasy Novel Wonderful Reader Aspiration Immersion Fantasy Novels

Author:Saladin Ahmed

“Once I grew up and realised 'What am I doing?' I started re-listening to the music I was playing and I realised there was so much finesse - it was dynamic and simple but I wanted to be authentic to the original songs.”

Wanted Song Simple Listening Grew Grew Up Originals Realised Finesse

Author:Eric Hernandez

“I know I have a very unusual style of playing, where other more recognized and technically proficient players might look at me and wonder what the heck I'm doing. The purpose of my learning to play the way I do was more to accompany my singing. I figured out a style where I'm mentally playing the drums over a simple melody.”

Knows Way Looks Play Might Purpose Simple Wonder Player Style Singing Melody Unusual Look At Me Accompany

Author:Dave Matthews

“The melodies are always the most important part to me. I am pulled more to the groove than the chord progression. After you find the groove, you find the most simple chord progressions and then sit inside that groove.”

Important Simple Melody Chords Progression Groove

Author:Dave Matthews

“The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.”

Christian Prayer Simple Rich Praying Humble Biblical Rosary

Author:Pope John Paul II

“I like to work in the real world, so I do a lot of searching or just simple looking. But I'm not above tweaking reality and making something up. I don't think there are any rules in art. It's not so much what you see as it is the significance you, the artist, see in it.”

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Author:Keith Carter

“What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.”

Artist Simple Periods Songwriters

Author:Ne-Yo

“I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so distracted - -by having to work other jobs, or what other people have to say about your writing - -but the one thing that really matters is that you just keep going, especially when you're working on a novel. It's so easy to get discouraged and give up.”

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Author:Sarah Dessen

“It is possible that in the 21st Century the Earth will not be inhabited by humans. One of the great mystics of India, a very simple man up in the mountains, somebody once asked him about the future. He said there will come a time when you'll walk five miles and you may see a light and you'll be so happy to know another being exists.”

Knows Men Humans May Said Light Earth Simple Walks Five Century Mountain India Miles 21st Century Simple Man

Author:Ram Dass

“As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.”

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Author:Stephen King

“Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food! Everything else - power, influence, strength - all those things can overpower what's important in life. But as long as you have food and shelter over your head, if the necessities are taken care of, what makes us happy on top of that is very simple.”

Ifs Long Important Care Sex Simple Taken Influence Over You Shelter What's Important Simple Love

Author:Meryl Streep

“I'm finding that knocking at their mindsets is hard work. A simple knock will not make it crawl. I was trying to push it. I was trying to find a bird's eye view where I could find a big solution. So this is what I was trying.”

Trying Hard Bigs Eye Simple Views Hard Work Findings Solutions Bird Mindset Knocking

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts.”

Love Heart Speak Language Simple Acceptable Heart Love

Book:The Christian Science Journal

Source: The Christian Science Journal

“Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently”

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.”

Problem Wisdom Simple Wise Solutions Elegant Elegant Solutions

Author:Ellet J. Waggoner

“The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.”

Ifs World Humans Doe Enough Simple Vision Teaching Limits Consequence Capacity Aim Permit Contemplating Educator Connectedness Human Capacity

Author:Mark Van Doren

“Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. A very simple, but very cunning trick to manipulate you. They have condemned you, because if you are accepted, not condemned - loved, appreciated, and if it is relayed to you from everywhere that you are okay - then it will be difficult to control you. How to control a person who is absolutely okay? The very problem doesn`t arise.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes, human. Now, if somebody commits a mistake in mathematics - two plus two, and he concludes it makes five - you don`t say he has committed a sin. He is unalert, he is not paying attention to what he is doing. He is unprepared, he has not done his homework. He is certainly committing a mistake, but a mistake is not a sin. It can be corrected. A mistake does not make him feel guilty. At the most it makes him feel foolish.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“Pay attention to your self outside the realm of your experiences and you'll discover that there is a light there, there is a love there. Love of one, love of all, merge into love, pure and simple. It radiates from you like light from the sun.”

Self Light Simple Pay Attention Sun Pure Pay Attention Realms One Love

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Ayurveda is the science of life and it has a very basic, simple kind of approach, which is that we are part of the universe and the universe is intelligent and the human body is part of the cosmic body, and the human mind is part of the cosmic mind, and the atom and the universe are exactly the same thing, but with different form, and the more we are in touch with this deeper reality, from where everything comes, the more we will be able to heal ourselves and at the same time heal our planet.”

Mind Humans Kind Different Body Reality Able Form Universe Simple Planets Approach Intelligent Deeper Heal Human Mind Atoms Cosmic Human Body Our Planet Time Heals Ayurveda

Author:Deepak Chopra

“It's a very simple example to show that if you miss one step in a process in can cost you an enormous amount of time and money to fix. With a checklist, you can write it down and give it some someone else for them to do successfully. Checklists require discipline and organization, which is something internet marketers have to master.”

Ifs Giving Writing Shows Process Simple Steps Missing Example Masters Amount Internet Discipline Cost Organization Down And Enormous Marketers Time And Money Checklists

Author:Brian Tracy

“Whenever I'm in need of inspiration and mantras, I go straight to simple affirmations. 'I am strong', 'I am brave', 'I can do this' and 'I'm awesome'. Whatever you put after 'I am', you will become. 'I am' are the two most powerful words, so make sure what you say after 'I am' is what you want to experience. It's like a magic trick.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“Some people when I speak of awareness of the "inner body" call it a technique. I would not call it a technique because it is too simple for that. When the oak tree feels its roots in the earth, its connectedness with the earth, it is not practicing a technique.”

People Feels Body Earth Speak Simple Tree Awareness Roots Technique Oaks Connectedness Oak Tree

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.”

Thinking Simple Novel Pieces Computer Complexes Sentences

Author:Joan Didion

“Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm. It may be this simple mechanical glitch that unites everything. This is my philosophy.”

May Philosophy Facts Political Simple Realms Civics Glitches

Author:Ken Burns

“Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Lasts Can Do Realizing Simple Teach Teaching Students Percent

Author:Bruce Molsky

“All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He told stories very easily and very generously, so I loved him for that. He was a simple man, a Victorian; he was born in 1890-something. He saw no reason and had never seen any reason to question his Christian faith. His faith was strong and simple and that's it. And I, like his other grandchildren and the children in his parish, sheltered underneath it.”

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Author:Philip Pullman

“The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.”

Ifs Way Use Simple White Five Pieces Groups Notes Seven Nine Piano Repeats Formulas Sections Minimalist

Author:Brian Eno

“[On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and lucid explanation... No investigation of yours would succeed in attaining the proof, and yet, once seen you immediately believe you would have discovered it.”

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Author:Proclus

“The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to interpretation and modification in space and time.”

Prayer Simple Space Charity Islam Core Interpretation Time And Space Fasting Acknowledgement Dogmatic Modification Faith Prayers

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“There is no "era" of simple, focused, concept-driven identity design. There is only design that grows out of understanding audiences for specific problems, and that evolves from an idea. This is an approach that does not depend on any specific time period or its technology.”

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Author:Ivan Chermayeff

“My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.”

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Author:Chic Murray

“Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a 'toy' you're definitely onto something.”

People Ifs Simple Building Toys

Author:Aaron Levie

“I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become much, much richer than I am. I choose to not do that. It's that simple.”

Choices Simple Directors Economist

Author:Odd Nerdrum

“There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds.”

Seems Happens Differences Simple Flower Complexes Simplicity Burden Canada Mexico Butterfly Routes Migration Monarchs Hummingbirds Monarch Butterfly

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Authenticity is fundamental, more fundamental than spiritual enlightenment. Without authenticity, no genuine spiritual enlightenment is possible. Authenticity is the state of being committed to truth. Truth is simple. And no matter how simply a truth is stated, only those who have walked the path of understanding and evolution on their own can know and understand it authentically. The path of truth is the path least traveled. Authenticity is the clarity of being in which there is no self-deceit.”

“Usually, I make a simple beat, throw in the acapella, and then I just improvise on the piano. Whatever comes up, I record the result, and I rework on it. Sometimes it takes a while to come with an idea, but mostly it comes naturally because I already have a connection with the song.”

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Author:Shook

“I am just trying to die on the stage just as simple as that. I just like going in man. Just give it my all and enjoy it.”

Men Giving Trying Dies Enjoy Simple Stage

Author:Wretch 32

“I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.”

Thinking Want Trying Grows Stuff Simple Growing Up Truth Is

Author:Stromae

“My rule of thumb is to strike a balance by sticking to the classics and playing with color, texture, and print to give them a modern update. On any given day, I keep it simple with jeans or chinos and a comfortable dress shirt.”

Giving Given Simple Modern Color Balance Comfortable Dresses Strikes Shirts Print Jeans Thumbs Texture Updates Keep It Simple

Author:Tommy Hilfiger

“I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.”

Ifs Simple Balls Excited Golden Ads Retrievers Golden Retrievers

Author:Chris Carmack

“Simple techniques for meditation can involve repetition of spiritually focused words, thoughts or ideas that help one feel at peace mentally and physically.”

Feels Ideas Helping Simple Meditation Focused Technique Repetition

Author:Tim McCarthy

“The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble.”

Littles Stories Remember Lines Simple Attention Rich Achieve Effects Draws Humble Sentences Prose Dense

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.”

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Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“The complexity of the language of images is disguised by the ease and rapidity with which we read them. I've tried to make work that is as transparent and simple as possible. No matter how much I strip away the result is always more complex to me than I expect.”

Matter Language Simple Results Complexes Ease Complexity Transparent

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.”

People World Art Reason Moments Today Lasts Differences Simple Pay Forever Willing Shots World Today Collectors Art World

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“Drucker said: 'If you weren't already in this business, would you enter it today? And if not, what are you going to do about it?' ... Simple, right? But incredibly powerful.”

Ifs Inspirational Said Today Simple Powerful

Author:Jack Welch

“That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One of them was, "Why are organizations everywhere, whether commercial, social, or religious, increasingly unable to manage their affairs?" The second question was, "Why are individuals throughout the world increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they're a part?" And the third was, "Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?"”

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Author:Dee Hock

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