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“I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.”

Ifs Want Years Said Stories Age Remember Mother Simple Rooms Fronts Tvs Mom Conversation My Mom Watching Tv

Author:Derek Luke

“Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.”

Giving Trying Years Christian Simple Accepting Giving Up Blessed Christian Inspirational Questioning Through The Years Simple Faith

Author:Vance Havner

“How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.”

Thinking Men Years Wells Simple Rocks Band Dignity Old Man Parody Rock Bands

Author:Nate Mendel

“Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.”

Years Children Simple Millions Breastfeeding

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“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

“What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.”

Years Today Simple Economy Changed Ethics Years Ago Including Market Economy Society Today Economy Today

Author:Robert Fripp

“About cars: They can list with faithful accuracy each model they acquired through the years, how much they paid for each one, its main faults, and why they traded it in - but they couldn't list as many close friends.”

Years Simple Car Models Paid Faults Lists Faithful Accuracy Simple Living Close Friends Through The Years

Author:Doris Janzen Longacre

“How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.”

Way Years Suffering Work Simple Events Punishment Fatigue Disagreeable Simple Truths Sufferings In Life

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.”

Years Stills Simple Heard Fairs Ears Notes Vanity Gentle Scare Vanity Fair

Book:London Lyrics

Source: London Lyrics

“During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.”

Way Years Made Problem Would Be Found Lines Simple Results Theory Pure Research Discovery Work Out Invention Constructs Experimentation Discarded

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“My life has changed because somebody fed my family on Thanksgiving when I was eleven years old. It wasn't the food that changed me, it was the fact that a stranger cared. That's what changed my life. That made me the person I am today and have been for the last 37 years. All that came out of that, that simple act of getting a result.”

Years Persons Has Beens Made Facts Today Lasts Simple Results Changed My Family Stranger Feds Eleven Changed My Life Life Has Changed

Author:Tony Robbins

“I have seen how patients with arthritis, crippled for years, have left their crutches and beds and walked.at the biological clinics (Europe). After a few days or weeks of simple and harmless treatments, the pain from which they suffered for years disappeared and their joints became mobile and flexible again.”

Years Pain Left Simple Week Bed Europe Patient Treatment Flexible Joints Mobile Crippled Crutches Clinic Arthritis

Author:Paavo Airola

“The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.”

Years Light Simple Consequence Foundation Observation Interpretation Conception Extensions Insufficiency

Book:Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays

Source: Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays

“For the last year and a half, I went from being a crazy workout girl to sort of saying, "My body wants a little bit a of break." So I kind of stay with more simple stuff and taking walks and not being neurotic about working out and eating right. I started to enjoy life a little bit more. The only downside to that is there's that couple extra pounds and about 4,000 pregnancy rumors, but you know, other than that, it feels great.”

“The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth.”

World Years Believe Wells I Can Light Earth Force Simple Space Five Position Hundred Method Wide Fifty Intrigue Assassination Insufficient Specialty Devious Light Years

Book:The Stars, Like Dust

Source: The Stars, Like Dust

“The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.”

Thinking Years Stories Seems Age Lost Nations Simple Economic Approach Management Seven Fats Contact Welfare Egypt Prudent Homely

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.”

“What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.”

People Years Ideas Wanted Simple Millions Forever Concepts Tribes Connecting

Author:Seth Godin

“Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.”

Years Firsts Earth Form Simple Records Surface Billions Organisms Fossils Ladders Living Organisms

Book:White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars

Source: White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars

“When some people look at a shrimp they think, "Hmm. Delicious." When I look at a shrimp I think, "You're a miracle, absolutely incredible. Your ancestors have gone back hundreds of millions of years." And to develop a thing as simple as a shrimp cocktail, you have to calculate the hundreds of millions of years that have preceded that moment where you're sitting there with your sauce and fork poised.”

People Thinking Years Looks Moments Simple Millions Gone Sitting Miracle Incredibles That Moment Ancestor Delicious Sauce Cocktails Forks Hmm Shrimp

Author:Sylvia Earle

“Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.”

Years Three Simple Half Ocean Years Ago Billions Compounds Primeval Organic Compounds

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again.”

Ifs World Years Littles Has Beens Grows Nature Simple Sun This World Thousand Spring Rain Green Thousand Years

Book:Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

Source: Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

“From the empty grave of Jesus the enemies of the cross turn away in unconcealable dismay. Those whom the force of no logic can convince, and whose hearts are steeled against the appeal of almighty love from the cross itself, quail before the irresistible power of this simple fact. Christ has risen from the dead! After two thousand years of the most determined assault upon the evidence which demonstrates it, that fact stands. And so long as it stands Christianity, too, must stand as the one supernatural religion.”

“It's pretty easy to make a film in China. A few years ago I just walked into the office and let them know I wanted to make a movie called 'Red Cliff' and they were so excited. They said, 'Let's do it!' It's that simple.”

Knows Years Said Wanted Film Easy Simple Office Red Years Ago Excited China They Said Cliffs

Author:John Woo

“I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.”

Way Years Actors Found Voice Natural Simple Five Stage Ordinary Hollywood Studios Five Years Gestures Eliminating

Author:Walter Huston

“It's simple - I love food. I am travelling all-year round, so I have the chance to eat every food possible, so I am really lucky with that.”

Years Chance Simple Lucky Rounds Food Love I Love Food

Author:Stan Wawrinka

“I think the big thing for Simple Plan is that we were able to keep the band members, the same five guys, the same lineup from the start. That's not easy. We grew up together. We're friends. We come from the same world. We've always had the same dreams and goals. I think we realized, as the years go by, how precious it is to have that, to build that, to see so many bands break up... it makes us realize how different we are to all that. We're really proud of that.”

Thinking World Years Different Dream Bigs Able Together Guy Easy Goal Realizing Simple Break Five Plans Grew Proud Band Members Grew Up Big Things Dreams And Goals Band Members Simple Plan

Author:Chuck Comeau

“The character of Jesus has not only been the highest pattern of virtue, but the strongest incentive in its practice, and has exerted so deep an influence, that it may be truly said that the simple record of three years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.”

Years May Said Done Character Three Jesus Simple Practice Virtue Records Influence Mankind Highest Patterns Philosopher Active Strongest Three Years Incentives Moralist Active Life

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.”

Years Humans Persons Made Simple Race Quality Son Demand Adults Human Race My Son Resentment Vacuums Simple Truths

Author:Dorothy Dunnett

“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”

“For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists

“We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?”

Years Believe Simple Doctors Folks Galen

Book:The Treatment of disease

Source: The Treatment of disease

“In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that changes everything else. But the memories are not erased of that safest time in the lives of men, when their prime concern was playing games with guys who just wanted to be their friendly competitors. Life never again gets so simple.”

Men Years Play Body Wanted Guy Games Memories Simple Boys Concern Friendly Prime Dozen Competitors Playing Games Centering Body Change

Author:Frank Pittman

“Here in California, one candidate for governor is a 100-year-old woman. She's going door-to-door and asking one simple question - 'Do I live here?'”

Years Simple Doors Asking California Candidates Governors Old Woman

Author:Craig Kilborn

“The Male Factor is the singularly best business book for women I've read in years. This well-researched yet thoroughly readable book is rich with rare insights into how men really see women in the workplace-and how with a few simple adjustments you can even the playing field.”

Men Years Wells Book Simple Rich Fields Males Insight Factors Workplace Adjustment Playing Fields Best Business

Author:Lois P Frankel

“Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring.”

People Years Two Ideas Found Simple Study Happened Trouble Week Team Percent Quitting No Idea Explanation Resolution New Year Two Weeks Psychologist New Year's Resolutions Monitoring

Author:Dave Barry

“To only call Wizards, Aliens, and Starships engaging would be a real understatement--it is a delightful, funny, and immensely interesting romp through science and fiction. From candlepower to teleportation, all the way to the fate of the cosmos in the span of a googol years, this is a cornucopia of teachable material. It is also a reminder of the simple thrill of applying science to the world around us, real or imagined. A new classic.”

World Way Years Real Would Be Simple Interesting Fiction Fate Materials Aliens Classic Cosmos Thrill Delightful Engaging Reminders Wizards Understatement Teachable

Author:Caleb Scharf

“Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago.”

“It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.”

Ifs Way Years Looks Has Beens Said Done Home Bigs Three Easy Simple Numbers Taken Five Advice New York Hundred Red Former Hopefully Managers Five Years Halls No Brainer General Manager

Author:Roger Clemens

“The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.”

Trying Years Littles Has Beens Lasts Individual My Own Simple Attention Company Groups Industry Approach Investing Criteria Undervalued

Author:Benjamin Graham

“There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.”

Years Soul Eye Asks Language Simple Discipline Weary Through The Eyes

Book:The western home: and other poems

Source: The western home: and other poems

“I drive old cars, all my Patagonia clothes are years and years old, I hardly have anything new. I try to lead a very simple life. I am not a consumer of anything. And I much prefer sleeping on somebody's floor than in a motel room.”

Trying Years Sleep Simple Rooms Car Clothes Consumers Simple Life Motels Old Car Patagonia

Author:Yvon Chouinard

“I have an idea for sweatshops: air conditioning! That's simple. 14 year old boys working twelve hour days? "Yeah, but they're comfortable!"”

Years Ideas Humor Funny Hours Simple Boys Air Comfortable Yeah Twelve Conditioning Air Conditioning Sweatshops

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Lasts Can Do Realizing Simple Teach Teaching Students Percent

Author:Bruce Molsky

“Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One of them was, "Why are organizations everywhere, whether commercial, social, or religious, increasingly unable to manage their affairs?" The second question was, "Why are individuals throughout the world increasingly in conflict with and alienated from the organizations of which they're a part?" And the third was, "Why are society and the biosphere increasingly in disarray?"”

World Years Wells Three Asks Individual Social Religious Simple Business Conflict Years Ago Organization Thirds Affair Manage Biosphere Year One Disarray

Author:Dee Hock

“Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal religion is. There's also a strong focus on selectionism and the notion that religion plays a functional role in the evolutionary process. But religion is dysfunctional all the time, as well as functional. It's not so simple.”

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Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years I did nothing else. Every holiday I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that. And that's what it's all about, being alone with yourself every day, for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening.”

Needs Years Long Real Courses Easy Simple Morning Meditation Minutes Twenties Instruments Evening Holiday Beard Transcendental Transcendental Meditation Sari

Author:Peter Lindbergh

“I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility. I'd also like to be six foot two and fifteen years into my reign as Emperor of Europa. The simple truth is that past the character's name and a long history of making my own body cover distances, I did very little in the way of targeted research.”

World Way Years Littles Long Two Character Body Past Names My Own Simple Feet Truth Is Degrees Six Models Research Distance Software Fifteen Reign Emperor Fifteen Years Simple Truths

Author:Robert Reed

“I'm coming from a place that's more experimental and indulgent already, so for the last 10 years, it's been more like, "How can I defend my own sensibilities by writing a nugget of a little catchy pop song?" That's how I'm stretching myself, by writing something really simple.”

Writing Years Littles Lasts Song My Own Simple Pops Sensibility Stretching Pop Song Catchy Nuggets

Author:Andrew Bird

“I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know how to play a more sophisticated role than the one that I have played for quite a few years, and that is spending a lot of time with these hard-working scientists in the various fields of expertise that relate to the climate crisis, learning as fully as I can the truths they are discovering, asking them to explain it in language that's simple enough for me to understand and then use that language to convey the essence of it, and then letting the chips fall where they may.”