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“I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.”

Writing Book Ideas Simple Complicated No Idea Solitary

“My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.”

Life Is Bits Water Simple Down And Complicated Reactions

“Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.”

Giving Today Difficult Can Do Lines Simple Steps Pure Perfection Complicated Dancer

Author:Natalia Makarova

“I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.”

People Trying Bigs Song Simple Fans Theory Messages Simplicity Complicated

Author:Graham Russell

“Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.”

Mind Mean States Beautiful Happiness Simple Meditation Buddhism Thousand Ten Profound Complicated State Of Mind Entering Uncomplicated Simple Happiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.”

Way Simple Society Conditions Complexes Complicated Adapted

Book:Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

Source: Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State

“There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.”

Knows Way Facts Happens Simple Talking Media Dangerous Politician Presses Bottom Complicated Better Ways Summarizing

Author:Seth Gordon

“Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in a variety of simple and complicated ways that we learned in Buddhist practice.”

Way Mind Mean Energy Simple Emotion Practice Buddhism Mindfulness Gains Complicated Buddhist Variety

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.”

Simple Painting Mathematics Simplicity Complicated Simple Things Complicated Things

Book:Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Source: Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

“As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.”

Stories Simple Answers Letters Filled Complicated Teenager Short Story

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.”

Men Wells Children Play Simple Answers Masters Golf Complicated Puzzles Grown Man

Author:Arnold Palmer

“I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Simple Clear Wonderful Products Complicated Fabulous

Author:Mark Morris

“The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.”

Simple Roles Genius Complicated Simplify

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.”

Feelings Simple Complicated Introspection

Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

“The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.”

Firsts Used Lying Simple Air Changed Truth Is Thousand Edges Complicated Fabric Wraps Simple Truths Lies Truth Quills Micah

Book:Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.”

Thinking Philosophy Simple Results Activity Complicated Knots

Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“I see how complicated it is to make a film and how many people are involved and I love the fact that I get to sit in a room on my own and the set costs nothing and the actors cost nothing and I'm the director and it's so simple. You just need a pen and paper to make a book. You don't need a huge budget or a gaffer or a best boy.”

People Needs Book Facts Film Actors My Own Simple Rooms Boys Huge Involved Cost Directors Paper Complicated Budgets Pens

Author:Markus Zusak

“The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.”

Source: A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

“As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.”

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.”

May Art War Artist Simple Modern Dare Complicated Violent Innocence Works Of Art Modern War

Book:The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

Source: The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

“A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you to do. Nothing else much matters, there is no complicated diplomacy, when a child is starving. It's simple. And we'd better do something about it. For our sakes, too. That is, if we want to continue to call ourselves human.”

Ifs Want Humans Children Country Matter Force Simple Sake Hunger Complicated Diplomacy Starving Basics

Author:Audrey Hepburn

“The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.”

Moving Simple Too Much Food Keys Messages Cooking Fruit Complicated Culinary Vegetables Junk Junk Food Fruits And Vegetables

Author:Marion Nestle

“What usually works: Simple sells. When you have to get out an encyclopedia and an Excel sheet to show somebody how much they make on a stream that comes by way of ad revenue, it gets a little complicated.”

Way Littles Shows Simple Sells Complicated Streams Ads Sheets Revenue Encyclopedia

Author:Monte Lipman

“Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.”

Giving Life Is Simple Complicated Our Society Shallow

Author:Fred Rogers

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

Sex Simple Complicated

Author:Iris Johansen

“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

“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

“Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.”

Simple Deals Situation Moral Principles Solutions Complicated Moral Principles

Book:An enemy hath done this

Source: An enemy hath done this

“I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part, a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules of romantic fiction, and complicated simple solutions with his absurd adolescent, book-born nonsense.”

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Author:Robertson Davies

“Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.”

Way Values Bits Simple Produce Creatures Survival Complicated Avoiding Constraints Flocks Guarded Admonition

Book:Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.”

Way Body Simple Principles Car Approach Machines Complicated Straightforward Maintenance

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.”

Able Simple Complicated Simplify

Author:Bruno Munari

“I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem. We are trying to understand how we have got a complicated world, and we have an explanation in terms of a slightly simpler world, and we explain that in terms of a slightly simpler world and it all hangs together down to an ultimately simple world. Now, God is not an explanation of that kind. God himself cannot be simple if he has power to do all the things he is supposed to do.”

Ifs Thinking World Trying Kind Problem Together Term Simple Atheism Complicated Positive Atheism Explanation Complicated World

Author:Richard Dawkins

“How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who won't amount to very much to someone who will count for something. The answer is at once both simple and complicated: We treat a child as if he already is what we would like him to become.”

Ifs Children Helping Simple Answers Students Amount Capable Treats Complicated Mediocre Dependable

Author:Haim Ginott

“The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.”

“I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.”

Way Simple Common Modern Claims Complicated Contrary Physics Common Sense Unusual Another Way Relativity Modern Physics

Book:Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics

Source: Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics

“The characteristic merit of the English constitutions is, that its dignified parts are very complicated and somewhat imposing, very old and rather venerable, while its efficient part, at least when in great and critical action, is decidedly simple and modern.”

Action Simple Modern Constitution Complicated Critical Merit Characteristics Efficient Parliament Imposing

Book:The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays

Source: The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays

“Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.”

Men Trying Mean Said Hours Simple Creatures Obvious Complicated Fifty Grey Literal Fifty Shades Shades Of Grey 50 Shade Of Grey

Author:E. L. James

“The steady states of the fluid matrix of the body are commonly preserved by physiological reactions, i.e., by more complicated processes than are involved in simple physico-chemical equilibria. Special designations, therefore, are appropriate:—“homeostasis” to designate stability of the organism; “homeostatic conditions,” to indicate details of the stability; and “homeostatic reactions,” to signify means for maintaining stability.”

“When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“The Universe loves grateful people. The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It's that simple. Life is really that simple. We make it enormously complicated, but it doesn't have to be.”

People Life Is Universe Simple Grateful Complicated Be Grateful Simple Life

Author:Louise Hay

“God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.”

Men Made Hard Simple Changed Simplicity Complicated

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“[Golf]is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well, and a grown man can never master it. Any single round of it is full of unexpected triumphs and perfect shots that end in disaster. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle without an answer. It is gratifying and tantalizing, precise and unpredictable. It requires complete concentration and total relaxation. It satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time, rewarding and maddening. And it is without doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.”

“We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.”

Needs Beautiful Simple Pure Intellectual Complicated Categories Childlike

Author:Rob Bell

“PhotoShop is a program I use all the time with my 2D stuff. And that's an extraordinary program - you really can do anything there, and I've never hit my head on the ceiling. The 3D stuff is incredibly complicated, monstrously complicated, but for the things that I want to do, I've found very simple and interesting ways, I hope, of making images without getting tied up too much in the maps and technicalities.”

Way Want Use Found Stuff Can Do Simple Interesting Too Much Program Extraordinary Complicated Maps Tied Ceilings Tied Up Interesting Ways Photoshop Technicalities

Author:Dave McKean

“One of the key things is to encourage people to have a go in the kitchen and not to be embarrassed by it. Try and spend a couple of nights a week cooking something up. It doesn't have to be complicated, it can be something really simple.”

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Author:William Katt

“Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.”

Doe Real Challenges Simple Simplicity Complicated Live Life Simple Living Real Wisdom

Author:Jim Rohn

“It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.”

Difficult Simple Simplicity Complicated

Book:Modern Painters

Source: Modern Painters

“Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood - for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.”

World Long Book Running Memories Simple Childhood Hero Brave Simplicity Complicated Telling The Truth Long Runs Defeated Contradictory Disappointing Swordsman

Author:Graham Greene

“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.”

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Author:Dave Eggers

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