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“I want to keep things simple and keep my energy focused on moving forward.”

Want Moving Energy Simple Focused Moving Forward

“Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.”

Enough Simple Study Effects Painting Strive Simplicity Complexity

Author:Chai Lu

“We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.”

Character Simple Flaws Defects Character Flaws

Author:Mardy Grothe

“Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.”

People Want Reason Simple Majority Enforcement Prohibition Resisting

Author:Fiorello H. La Guardia

“You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature that's good for customers. Let's do it.”

Knows Use Simple Cases Judgment Customers Features

Author:Jeff Bezos

“...thousands of women could be saved each year if they had access to skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth, and access to emergency obstetric care. Most of the interventions they need are simple, affordable, and highly effective.”

Ifs Needs Years Care Simple Access Saved Pregnancy Emergencies Intervention Affordable Childbirth

Author:Lee Jong-wook

“The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”

People Thinking Trying Life Is Enjoy Water Simple Conflict Lows Fairs All Things Supreme Compare Generous Tao Family Life Governing Dwelling Disdain

Author:Laozi

“Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.”

Simple Guides

Author:Francois Fenelon

“As a wife, daughter, friend, and the founder and CEO of LearnVest, my schedule is anything but simple. But I learned early on how to meticulously manage my time.”

Simple Wife Daughter Manage My Time Founders Schedules Ceo

Author:Alexa Von Tobel

“The Difference Engine can in reality (as has been already partly explained) do nothing but add; and any other processes, not excepting those of simple subtraction, multiplication and division, can be performed by it only just to that extent in which it is possible, by judicious mathematical arrangement and artifices, to reduce them to a series of additions.”

Has Beens Reality Process Differences Simple Add Series Mathematical Division Engines Arrangements Artifice Multiplication Subtraction

Author:Ada Lovelace

“Above thought is the intellect, which still seeks: it goes about looking, spies out here and there, picks up and drops. But above the intellect that seeks is another intellect which does not seek but stays in its pure, simple being, which is embraced in that light.”

Doe Stills Light Simple Pure Picks Intellect Spy Here And There

Book:Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises

Source: Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises

“A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When I read in some alarmist book that the Christian faith is now on trial, or "at the crossroads," my impulse is to answer, Why Not? Does anybody know a time when the Christian faith was not on trial, or when the Christian life was a simple walkover, with neither principalities nor powers to dispute its advance?”

Knows Doe Book Reason Christian Simple Answers Trials Christian Life Impulse Why Not Disputes Christian Faith Crossroads Alarmists

Author:John Edgar Park

“For all its peculiarities and unevenness, the Bible has a simple story. God made man. Man rejected God. God won't give up until he wins him back. God will whisper. He will shout. He will touch and tug. He will take away our burdens; he'll even take away our blessings. If there are a thousand steps between us and him, he will take all but one. But he will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours. Please understand. His goal is not to make you happy. His goal is to make you His. His goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need.”

Source: God's Inspirational Promises

“I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I was taught, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... to judge a man not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character...is simply doing what's right when nobody's looking.”

Men Children Reason Character Simple Taught Color Judging Kings Skins Luther

Author:J. C. Watts

“I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels. We know their names. They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all. A healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin, and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all...”

Knows Made Self Facts Eye Names Heaven Simple Numbers Healing Cases Streets Thousand Angel Red Skins Embrace Creator Warm Tonight Manifest Evident Crowded Fever Gracious Benevolent Ribbons Red Ribbon

Author:Tom Hanks

“There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas”

Way Ideas Difficult Understanding Simple Opposites Simple Things

Author:Miyamoto Musashi

“The reason you keep on coming back to see me is very simple; every time you have seen me your body has learned certain things, even against your desire. And finally your body now needs to come back to me to learn more. Let's say that your body knows that it is going to die, even though you never think about it. So I've been telling your body that I too am going to die and before I do I would like to show our body certain things, things which you cannot give to your body yourself... So let's say then that your body returns to me because I am its friend”

Thinking Knows Needs Giving Reason Shows Body Desire Certain Dies Simple Return Your Body Coming Back Come Back To Me Return To Me

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.”

Simple Support Television Band Guitar Treated Rhythm Aggression Teenage Delicacy

Author:Richard Lloyd

“The difference between recession and depression is simple. Recession, goes the saying, is when you lose your job; depression is when I lose mine.”

Jobs Loses Differences Simple Mines Recessions

Author:Amity Shlaes

“Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.”

Simple Jokes Understood Naked

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“If army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule:Just do what the ant in front of you does. The ants eventually end up in a circle. There's this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died.”

Ifs Long Doe Two Ends Lost Simple Feet Fronts Example Army Died Circles Wander Ants Two Days Wandering Around

Author:James Surowiecki

“My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly.”

Simple Son Masters Prepared My Son Delicate Recipes Sons Love

Author:Andy Garcia

“Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.”

Mind Today Simple Ignorance Pure Wander Hug Vacuity

Book:The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation

“Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.”

Sometimes Simple Truth Is

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story adequately enough in what we have termed culturally common stories. To some extent, the stories of a culture are observable by inspecting the vocabulary of that culture. Often entire stories are embodied in one very culture-specific word. The story words unique to a culture reveal cultural differences.”

Enough Stories Culture Language Differences Simple Common Unique Labels Vocabulary One Word Cultural Differences

Author:Roger Schank

“That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.”

People Thinking Writing Dream America Simple Doors Genius Miracle Hearing Insistence True Genius Small Miracles Simple Dreams

Book:An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer

Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer

“My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.”

Giving Sometimes Enough Asks Fun Simple Too Much Students Definitions Damn Fundamentalist

Author:Bart D. Ehrman

“Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.”

Want States Simple Pleasure Plans Citizens Trade Restriction Discouragement Free Trade

Author:Winston Churchill

“All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.”

Use Simple Modern Fine Cameras Piano Concerts Snapshots Chopsticks

Author:Sam Haskins

“Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.”

Way Artist Difficult Simple Difficult Things Simple Things Simple Ways

Author:Charles Bukowski

“We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.”

World Simple Authority Consequence Assuming Realization Competence American Life Good Faith

Author:Chris Hayes

“Making something simple is very difficult.”

Difficult Simple

Author:Jack Dorsey

“Leadership is simple: Add value to people everyday.”

People Values Simple Add Everyday

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“Is it love that connects us, is that what it is? I never knew that the feeling I have is regular old love because it's so-intricate. Perhaps there is another name for it, one we don't yet know. I used to think that love was simple and noticeable, like rain falling, so that just as you'd look at your skin and say Water, you would also wake in the morning and say Love. But it has been underneath, this new and old thing I feel, subterranean, silent and steady, like blood, rushing along and along without often making itself known.”

Thinking Knows Feels Looks Has Beens Feelings Used Fall Names Water Simple Love Is Known Morning Blood Rain Skins Silent Steady Rushing Intricate Old Things Old Love Rain Falling

Author:Jane Hamilton

“Lobsters displays all three of the classic biological characteristics of an insect, namely: 1. It has way more legs than necessary. 2. There is no way you would ever pet it. 3. It does not respond to simple commands such as "Here, boy!"”

Way Doe Three Simple Boys Legs Command Classic Characteristics Pet Display Insects Lobster

Book:Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

“One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.”

Ifs Important Would Be Simple Principles Practice Simple Life

Author:Guy Finley

“Good Deeds Day is based on a simple idea that every person can do a good deed for the benefit of others and the planet. Even a smile that brightens someone else's day is a good deed. I initiated Good Deeds Day to spread the message that everyone can give of themselves, according to their heart's desire.”

Giving Heart Persons Ideas Desire Can Do Simple Planets Benefits Messages Deeds Spread Good Deeds Simple Ideas Kind Deeds

Author:Shari Arison

“There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.”

Men Able Easy Simple Wise Achieve Discipline Pages Ugly Dull Realising Capture Vulgar Transparent Typography Ostentation

Author:Beatrice Warde

“Be simple and reliable”

Simple

Author:Jan Koum

“Rummy is the best-known of all card games played in the United States. Its popularity is due partly to the fact that it is so simple. Any person with a knowledge of the basic game can easily learn any form of it.”

Persons States Facts Form Games Simple United Known United States Dues Cards Popularity

Author:Albert H. Morehead

“It takes a long time to make it simple.”

Long Simple Long Time

Author:David Hockney

“When we talked about Socrates, we saw how dangerous it could be to appeal to people's reason. With Jesus we see how dangerous it can be to demand unconditional forgiveness. Even in the world of today, we can see how mighty powers can come apart at the seams when confronted with simple demands for peace, love, food for the poor, and amnesty for the enemies of the state.”

People World States Reason Today Jesus Simple Poor Enemy Saws Dangerous Demand Appeals Unconditional Amnesty Food Love Peace Love

Book:Sophie's World

Source: Sophie's World

“Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.”

Games Simple Conversation Empathy Connections Performances Competition Circles Climbing Construction Hierarchy Pyramids

Author:Richard Rohr

“Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.”

Made Moments Action Together Simple Taken Our Lives Determine Seeds Gestures Harvest Words And Actions Simple Words

Author:Wayne Muller

“The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.”

Ifs Way Want Giving Simple Love Is

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around the world and I want to have close contact with these people. I want to contribute to harmony and peace of mind, for less conflict. Wherever the possibililty is, I'm ready. This is my life's goal.”

People World Want Years Mind Made Lasts Goal Simple Ready Conflict Harmony Contact Around The World Buddhist Thirty Peace Of Mind Monk Thirty Years Many Friends Buddhist Monk

Author:Dalai Lama

“The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and the same desire for happiness, and not suffering, and the consideration that you as one individual are one life unit as compared with the mulititude of others in their ceaseless quest for happiness.”

Facts Desire Suffering Individual Simple Recognition Consideration Quests Units Loving Others Rationale

Author:Dalai Lama

“Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.”

Made Book Simple Written Economics Doctrine Topics Selected

Book:The Early Economic Writings of Alfred Marshall, 1867–1890

Source: The Early Economic Writings of Alfred Marshall, 1867–1890

“Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.”

Should Simple Player Team Demand Obedience Conformity Team Player

Author:Alfie Kohn

“A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.”

Problem Simple Destiny Ambition Available Arithmetic

Author:Alain de Botton

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