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Source: The Society In Opposition To Everything

“If there is anything like a unifying aesthetic principle in mathematics, it is this: simple is beautiful. Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.”

Thinking Beautiful Simple Beauty Mathematics Simplicity Aesthetic Imaginary Mathematician Simplest Unifying Principle

Book:A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

Source: A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

“The simplest formular for a fulfilled life is; God+Wisdom+Industry! God is the source of your destiny and purpose; Wisdom is the potential he gives to you to make right choices; Your industry reveals your responsibility to release whatever the God of your purpose introduced you to by your divine thoughts and imaginations!”

“The simplest of things can teach us the most profound wisdom!”

Teach Wisdom Quotes Profound Simplest

Author:Avijeet Das

“The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The least effort is the feat most likely to be accomplished.”

Easy Effort Richelle Goodrich Lazy Richelle E Goodrich Richelle Simplest Feat Least Effort Simplest Ways

Book:Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Let go of that which is unnecessary to make space for that which is meaningful. This is the simplest way to begin a process that will change your life for good.”

Life Process Change Space Good Meaningful Unnecessary Simplest Begin Which

Author:Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.”

Sometimes Simplest

Author:Kaitlin Olson

“Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.”

Life Is Climate Routine Camps Cents Simplest Bugs Chores Daily Routines Humidity

Author:Stefanie Powers

“The simplest way for me to look at the law of attraction is if I think of myself as a magnet, and I know that a magnet will attract to it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Looks Law Attraction Law Of Attraction Simplest Magnet

Author:John Assaraf

“A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.”

Children Bigs Poor Evidence Shoes Holes Simplest Poor Children

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them!”

Men Dog Simplest My Dog

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.”

Facts Able Personality Fit Difficulty Communicate Anxious Hypothesis Simplest Surviving Straightforward Being Straightforward

Author:Oliver Lodge

“Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.”

“The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.”

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Book:Death in the Afternoon

Source: Death in the Afternoon

“The western is the simplest form of drama - a gun, death.”

Form Drama Gun Western Simplest

Author:Howard Hawks

“Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.”

Thinking Enjoy Imaginary Mathematician Simplest

Author:Paul Lockhart

“Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent.”

Littles Made Practice Meditation Movement Yoga Breaths Intention Breathing Cycles Gestures Simplest Animated Posture

Author:Donna Farhi

“The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.”

Mind Humans Persons Science Names Behinds Wonder Saws Fields Thousand Horse Glasses Ships Pockets Human Mind Simplest Thrilling Microscopes Steeples

Author:David Fairchild

“The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.”

Men Art Passion Natural Simplest Eloquent Infallible Persuasive Orators Oratory

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.”

Way Mean Universe Animal Interesting Brain Impression Perceive Simplest Edited

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.”

Persons Doe Fans Baseball Claims Method Score Fraud Simplest Baseball Fans

Author:Thomas Boswell

“By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.”

Way Natural Color Simplicity Impression Tone Capture Simplest Patches

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody. It's the truest thing and the simplest thing that does the most good a lot of times and I hope that we can all just reach out to each other.”

Ifs Doe Happens Arms Reach Out Simplest Truest

Author:Julia Roberts

“The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.”

Way Children Shows Reading Teach Activity Raises Simplest

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see.”

Looks Said Might Care Grows Flower Blow Simplest Saviour Lilies Confidence In God

Book:The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir [Delta]

Source: The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir [Delta]

“There is a great temptation with songs, melodies and lyrics to overcomplicate them but in fact, you find that the most enduring melodies are often the simplest.”

Facts Song Endure Temptation Melody Simplest

Author:Ken Hensley

“Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.”

Joy Ability Music Dignity Absolutes Breaths Phrases Significance Passages Primitive Simplest Energetic Squeezing Motifs Dignity And Strength

Author:Robert Genn

“The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.”

World Matter Eye Views Seeing Special Sight Point Of View Painter Simplest Portal

Author:Richard Schmid

“In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.”

War Simplest

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.”

Want Facts Life Is Progress Perseverance Simplest Facts Of Life

Book:The Tough-Minded Optimist

Source: The Tough-Minded Optimist

“The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream.”

“Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.”

Should Ideas Written Style Communication Objectives Introducing Simplest Project Management

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter of the law when she really breaks it in spirit. LOYAL. This means that she is true to her country, to the city or village where she is a citizen, to her family, her church, her school, and those for whom she may work or who may work for her. HELPFUL. The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker. This is the spirit that makes the older Scout into a fine, useful, dependable woman.”

Way May Mean Country School Law Young Spirit Turns Girl Church Cities Break Fine Citizens Honor Letters Satisfied Helpful Village Loyal Simplest Giver Dependable

Author:Juliette Gordon Low

“One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm "God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualizing his presence. Then practice believing that affirmation.”

“I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.”

Use Would Be Easy Imagine Television Devices Users Simplest Integrated Cracked Interfaces User Interface

Author:Steve Jobs

“The quickest, simplest, and most powerful way I know to handle any emotion is to remember a time when you felt a similar emotion and realize that you've successfully handled this emotion before.”

Knows Way Motivational Remember Felt Realizing Powerful Emotion Handle Most Powerful Simplest

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“When you are not following dharma, then you will not be at peace. You will not be happy. The simplest things will seem to be endless obstacles.”

Seems Buddhism Following Obstacles Endless Simplest Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing.”

Men Art Girl Capable Miracle Repeats Works Of Art Assets Simplest Peasants Stock Exchange

Book:Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition

Source: Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition

“The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air, viscosities and odours - of the greatest variety and disparity.”

Different Form Universe Water Space Air Clouds Size Currents Circles Variety Colour Spheres Volume Floating Simplest Vary Spray Disparity Density Disk Floating In Space

Author:Alexander Calder

“It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.”

Children Wonder Sea Color Laughter Sand Things In Life Toes Simplest

Author:Goldie

“A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.”

Thinking Men Said Girl Women Demand Endless Vanity Veils Simplest Shrouds Novices Coquetry

Book:A Woman of Thirty

Source: A Woman of Thirty

“It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.”

Ifs Needs Doe Light Simple Explanation Simplest Strangeness Bright Lights

Book:Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

“The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.”

Knows Today Tomorrow Lessons Be Good Practicals Resolve Simplest Better Tomorrow

Author:Catherine McAuley

“The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.”

Men Passion Simplest Eloquent Infallible Persuasive Orators Oratory

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.”

People Way Giving Ideas Real Understanding Justice Deserve Difficulty Simplest

Author:Michael Sandel

“When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.”

Mind Computer Capacity Superiority Simplest Variability

Author:Jacques Barzun

“The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing."”

Made Said Book Wish Lines Teacher Comment Ballet Depressing Simplest Wish You Ballet Teachers

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.”

Mind Shapes Regions Simplest Accuracy Cloudy

Book:The progress of a biographer

Source: The progress of a biographer

“The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.”

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Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

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