“In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action” FirstsActionSimpleSituationPrinciplesMilitaryReturnCritical Author:Winston Churchill
“The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.” TodayReadingSimpleHalfSituationFiguresIndustryInternetCostMachinesPaidNewspapersFundArticlesCentsBankingPaymentTransfersDwarfsDwarves Author:Erik Naggum
“I've found in my own life that the older I get, the more stubborn I am in my beliefs and opinions. Without keeping my ego in check, it would be easy for me to bail on relationships when I didn't agree with someone. The antidote to this problem is humility, plain and simple. The more we claim an unassuming nature, the more we believe the best about people and situations, and the more we try and see others through the lens of love. We are then given the opportunity for our relationships to grow.” PeopleTryingBelieveProblemOpportunityBeliefEasySimpleSituationOpinionHumilityEgoAgreeOur RelationshipStubborn Author:Anne Marie Miller
“Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.” HumansPersonsMadeIndividualSimpleAnswersRaceSituationCryIndiaSouthRaisedComplexesExcuseThese DaysHuman RaceComplexityStride Author:Pearl S. Buck
“No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.” PeopleMenSimpleSituationDown AndIrelandSchemesAssaultCorpsesArrestedPresent Situation Author:W. E. B. Du Bois
“Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave.” PeopleWaySimpleSituationTheoryBehaveUtility Book:The Art and Science of Negotiation Source: The Art and Science of Negotiation
“We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.” PeopleWorldStuffDifficultSidesSimpleSituationCircumstancesAdvantageBordersCommentSophisticatedBoth SidesTaking Advantage Author:Arlo Guthrie
“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.” SimpleDealsSituationMoralPrinciplesSolutionsComplicatedMoral Principles Book:An enemy hath done this Source: An enemy hath done this
“My inspiration is really very simple: I'm struck by things that I want to know more about. I really do react just as a curious person: who is this person? What's the story behind this situation? Why do people like this or dislike this thing?” PeopleKnowsWantPersonsStoriesInspirationSimpleBehindsSituationCuriousDislike Author:Susan Orlean
“Acting is a really simple job - it's just hard to do. You just have to be that person with their background in that situation. That's all it is. My kids do it all the time when they're dressing up and playing games.” PersonsHardKidsJobsGamesSimpleActingSituationBackgroundsDressingsDressing UpPlaying Games Author:Jason Isaacs
“The weird job of acting is that it is so simple. You just see the person in the situation. It is whatever you have to do to get there. Some people want to stay up all night or cut their toe off. For me it is a bunch of reading, and hanging out with real people, I do that. You never know what you are going to get. It might be the shoes people wear.” PeopleKnowsWantPersonsRealMightJobsNightReadingSimpleActingSituationCuttingShoesBunchHanging OutToesAll NightUp All Night Author:Jason Isaacs
“When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it, you have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!” IfsWorldHumansSeemsMightLanguageSimpleSituationWorryPathPlansDangerReadyIncrediblesOperationsEmergencies Author:Vernon Howard
“It's now or never. This is simple to say, but then to live like that is not easy at all, I'm sorry. You have to be aware enough so that you can see situations as they pass in front of you and be able to catch the instant, whatever it is. Many times, you just don't see the moment when you were yawning and then it's too late.” EnoughMomentsAbleEasySimpleSituationFrontsLateSorryInstantToo LateI'm SorryYawningNow Or Never Author:Vincent Cassel
“The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.” WorldCan DoSimpleSituationComplexesRationalAnalysisSentimentsGood Will Author:Reinhold Niebuhr