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“No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras”

“For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Principles Conditions Elements Primaries Analysis Simplest

Book:Physics

Source: Physics

“For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been the reverberations after even the simplest conversation. But the deep collision is and has been with my unregenerate, tormenting and tormented self...I am unable to become what I see. I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful halt, "won't go".”

“What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.”

Way Humans Values Theater Tables Clarity Who We Are Behaviour Simplest Posse Human Behaviour

Author:Adam Gopnik

“When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions.”

Way Said Ideas Care Choices Differences Decision Wonder Thousand Strain Simplest

Author:E. B. White

“. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.”

Conditions Meetings Simplest Grammar Select Adequacy

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The simplest secret of reaching any place is to start walking! If people say you can't reach there, close your ears to them and continue walking!”

People Ifs Secret Walking Ears Reaching Simplest

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.”

Looks Facts Together Physics Simplest

Author:Albert Einstein

“The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.”

Years Courses Difficult Achieve Simplest

Author:Pablo Casals

“In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction.”

Two Different Use Together Metaphor Active Phrases Different Things Interaction Simplest Single Word

Author:I. A. Richards

“Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.”

People Humans Community Answers Powerful Conversation Members Creating Investment Most Powerful Simplest Organisation Positive Future

Author:William Greider

“Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.”

Way Shows Together Caring Ties Strongest Thread Simplest Woven Ties That Bind

Author:Donald E. Westlake

“If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.”

Ifs Matter Forever Calling Response Very Good Endeavor Simplest Pursued God Exists

Book:Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work

Source: Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work

“It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.”

Men Law Liberty Principles Hopeless Simplest Mockery Aggravating

Author:Joseph Sobran

“To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.”

Years Contemplation Simplest

Author:Isaac Newton

“One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.”

Age Action Growing Tools Simplest Learning More

Author:Washington Irving

“Being kind is the simplest way to become who we really are.”

Way Kind Be Kind Simplest

Author:Piero Ferrucci

“Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.”

Thinking Enough Father Sleep Inspire Like You Perspective Goes On Becoming Dad Parenting Satisfying Things In Life Simplest Fathers Day Enough Sleep Becoming A Father

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I was thinking how strange it is that water is one of the best, simplest things on this planet, and still with a simple glass of water you can neutralize so many of the greatest technological advances that we provide. Like with my blackberry, I can get in touch with so many people, but if I dip it in a small glass of water I'm completely disconnected.”

People Ifs Thinking Stills I Can Water Simple Strange Planets Glasses Technological Simplest Dip Disconnected Blackberries

Author:Demetri Martin

“The simplest things are often the truest.”

Simple Environment Simplicity Simplest Simple Life Simplify Simple Things Truest Minimalism Simple Living Minimalist Less Is More Living A Simple Life Simplicity In Art

Author:Richard Bach

“The simplest subjects are the immortal ones.”

Subjects Immortal Simplest

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.”

Thinking Life Home Change Born Answers Watches Discovery Profound Self Discovery Finding Yourself Simplest Know Yourself Simple Life Messiah Change Is Good Discovering The World Self Change

Author:Richard Bach

“The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious.”

Way Moving Simplest Plight

Author:Mark Nepo

“The best idea is the simplest.”

Ideas Simplest

Author:David Ogilvy

“It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.”

Facts Indian Simplest

Book:The Great Railway Bazaar

Source: The Great Railway Bazaar

“Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.”

People World Real Simple Simplest Real Happiness

Author:Orison Swett Marden

“The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)”

Knows Care Dog Advantage Blame Strategy Simplest

Author:Mary Roach

“The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.”

Way Trying I Can Different Whole Certain Born Taught Whole Life Therapy Simplest

Author:Billy Corgan

“If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.”

Ifs I Can Form Capture Simplest

Author:Mark Twain

“If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?”

People Ifs Needs Problem Simple Spread Narrative Simplest Amplify

Author:Ethan Zuckerman

“Moby lives the simplest of any person I think I know.”

Thinking Knows Persons Simplest

Author:Moby

“The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.”

Should Wonderful Fashion Television Simplest

Author:David Bowie

“Arson is the single most fundamental form of terrorism.It`s the simplest terrorist tactic.”

Form Fundamentals Terrorism Terrorist Simplest Tactics Arson

Author:Malcolm Wrightson Nance

“There's not much that doesn't get me stoked. I love what I do and am so passionate about it that I get stoked on the simplest things - watching the sunrise, walking on the beach, going for a run through the forest or along the coast. One of my all time favorite things is surfing amazing waves with my family and best friends.”

Running Walking My Family Passionate Wave Forests All Time Beach Sunrise Coast Simplest Surfing Favorites Things All Time Favorite Walking On The Beach

Author:Sally Fitzgibbons

“What inspires me is the power of human potential... the human potential to evolve in our lives, and for profound healing. It's always been there but it's become somewhat obscure to us given the stressful, fast-paced modern culture in which we live. I'm also inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.”

“I live by the simplest, perhaps facile command that Jesus ever gave, which is to love God with the whole self and the neighbor as the self, and I find that's entirely consuming. To do those two things leaves me very little time to do much else.”

Littles Two Self Whole Jesus Neighbor Command God Love Two Things Live By Simplest Leaving Me Consuming Little Time

Author:Barbara Brown Taylor

“The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.”

Thinking Stills Whole Form Subjects Essence Drawing Meant To Be Simplest Believable Believability Good Thinking

Author:Chuck Jones

“So, some of the most difficult formal poems that I've written, say one sentence sonnets, I've been able to do those fairly quickly whereas some of the clearest, simplest lyrics that I've written have taken me the longest to get to the clarity of feeling that you're looking for.”

Feelings Able Difficult Taken Written Sentences Clarity Formal Simplest Sonnet One Sentence

Author:Edward Hirsch

“Ours is not a dumb species. We have put a man on the moon. We have unlocked the secrets of the human genome. We have discovered how to take stem cells and coax them into becoming brain cells, heart muscle, liver tissue - any organ of the human body that needs repair. These are our miracles, and there are more. Yet we have not yet found a way to do the simplest things: To live in peace. To stop killing each other when we disagree. To distribute that which is good in life freely and fairly.”

“I'm inspired by how miraculous some of the simplest and most natural aspects of life can be the greatest sources of healing and transformation.”

Natural Healing Source Aspect Transformation Inspired Simplest Miraculous Aspects Of Life

Author:Brad Willis

“I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.”

Ideas Turns Understanding Results Attention Impossible Produce Embrace Simplest Understanding Love

Author:Alicia Keys

“In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed. Basically, that's why I photograph, in the simplest language. That's the beginning of it and then we get to play the games.”

Looks Play Games Language Photograph Sentences Simplest

Author:Garry Winogrand

“I get asked a lot why cats mess outside the litter box. The simplest thing is if you have more than one cat and you have two litter boxes, don't put them right next to each other.”

Ifs Two Next Cat Boxes Mess Simplest

Author:Temple Grandin

“I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.”

Way Want Trying Too Much Objects Simplest

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“I invented a camera that has an exposure time of one hundred years and the camera works in the simplest possible terms, because anything more complicated is more likely to break down in one way or another. It's a pinhole camera that lets in very low light and instead of exposing film, which is going to spoil within a matter of days or weeks, I'm using ordinary black paper.”

Way Years Matter Light Film Black Term Break Week Paper Lows Ordinary Hundred Cameras Complicated One Way Breaking Down Simplest Exposure Spoil Exposing

Author:Jonathon Keats

“I always think about the simplest things in a relationship that have frustrated me. It always sort of comes down to communication. Even something as simple as probably the worst thing that could happen is, 'Where do you want to go to dinner?' 'I dunno. Where do you want to go to dinner?' 'I dunno.' That might be the worst thing in the world.”

Thinking World Want Might Happens Simple Worst Communication Dinner Frustrated Worst Things Simplest

Author:Mandy Moore

“The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.”

Way Giving Trying Kind Feelings Lasts Too Much Pages Entering Simplest Giving Too Much

Author:Zadie Smith

“Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in "the simplest explanation is probably correct," also known as Occam's razor), but we should not get seduced by the apparent elegance of argument from parsimony; this line of reasoning has failed in the past at least as many times as it has succeeded.”

Should Past Lines Known Argument Scientist Explanation Reasoning Simplest Elegance Razors Occam's Razor Parsimony

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.”

Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

“Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.”

Needs Universe Energy Security Promise Elements Concern Environmental Addresses Our Future National Security Simplest Hydrogen

Author:Dan Lipinski

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