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“Complicated things for me tend not to be interesting. Simple things, like when it's really direct eye contact, or when you see a really beautiful shape, like when it's clean or well balanced in the frame.”

Wells Eye Beautiful Simple Interesting Shapes Direct Clean Complicated Contact Balanced Simple Things Really Beautiful Eye Contact Complicated Things

Author:Russell James

“I think the best shortcut is to choose really simple recipes. Because I think you can make simple recipes that are as delicious as complicated ones.”

Thinking Simple Complicated Delicious Recipes Shortcuts

Author:Ina Garten

“Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.”

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Author:Feist

“We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.”

Simple Complicated

Book:Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport

Source: Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport

“What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.”

Simple Understood Complicated

Author:Paul Valery

“If we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can respect our troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them to come, and let them go. Our lives may be complicated on the outside, but we remain simple, easy, and open on the inside.”

Ifs May Easy Simple Space Emotion Our Lives Awareness Complicated Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Tsoknyi Rinpoche

“There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.”

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Author:Sinead O'Connor

“Being simple and complicated at the same is what makes Jay-Z so great.”

Simple Complicated

Author:Rapsody

“Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!”

Simple Greater Complicated Simple Things Greater Power Complicated Things

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Books proliferate, and occasionally sell in very large numbers, which claim to have found the rule, or small set of rules, which will guarantee business success. But business is far too complicated, far too difficult an activity to distil into a few simple commands ... It is failure rather than success which is the distinguishing feature of corporate life.”

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Book:Why Most Things Fail

Source: Why Most Things Fail

“Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.”

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Author:Sydney J. Harris

“What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.”

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Author:Jean Cocteau

“Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal with them... But it's a complicated matter: Science studies what's at the edge of understanding, and what's at the edge of understanding is usually fairly simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too complicated.”

Way Humans Matter Hard Asks Understanding Simple Deals Study Complexes Affair Edges Complicated Simple Things Hard Questions

Author:Noam Chomsky