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“I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest in them.”

Ifs Kind Song Interest Loses Simple Levels Flow Currents Impression Hiccups

Author:Gillian Welch

“When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.”

Self States Joy Enjoy Simple Levels Deals Self Esteem Emotional Healthy Down And Esteem Slow Down Emotional Health Simple Joys

Author:Jess C Scott

“I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.”

Years Play Simple Levels Harmony Piano Fifteen Fifteen Years Prelude Fifteen Years Old

Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“At a simple level, good is that which helps people-evil is that which hurts people. At a higher level, good is that which is in harmony with divine purpose-evil is that which is out of harmony with divine purpose.”

People Helping Purpose Evil Hurt Simple Levels Divine Higher Goodness Harmony Higher Level Divine Purpose

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“We have the leading companies and the leading sectors in the advanced industrial world, we have an incredibly dynamic society, and we have high levels of entrepreneurship. And we have the best universities in the world. ... We also have impeccable credit. What we don't have is a political system that can take the simple measures to deal with our short-term deficit.”

World Political Term Simple Levels Deals Company University Credit Entrepreneurship Deficit Short Term Political Systems High Level Impeccable

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“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

“A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.”

Ideas Use Feelings Artist Simple Levels Direct Function Simplicity Familiar Containers Snowball

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“I think it's very, very tough to compare postseason and in-season, just for the simple fact that there's the heightened levels of energy on both sides of the ball.”

Thinking Facts Energy Sides Simple Levels Tough Seasons Balls Compare Both Sides Postseason

Author:Ndamukong Suh

“On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.”

Ifs Doe Simple Levels Fit Eating Sexuality Mood Meals Sensations Making Love Demonic Voluptuous Epileptics

Author:Susan Sontag

“I think people are really looking for some way whereby we can grow our souls rather than our economy. I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's destroying our planet. I think there's a great human desire for solutions, for profound solutions - and that nothing simple will do it. It really requires some very great searching of our souls.”

People Thinking Way Humans Soul Desire Grows Human Beings Simple Levels Economy Growing Planets Solutions Profound Destroying Our Planet

Author:Grace Lee Boggs

“Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.”

Wells Reality Jobs Nations Difficult Simple Levels Example Simplicity Treated Complexity Suspects Migrate

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war. ... Countless minor incidents - the kind you can never really foresee - combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.”

Kind War Ends Fall Difficult Goal Simple Levels Performances Difficulty Minors Simplest Incidents Friction

Author:Carl von Clausewitz