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“It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.”

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Author:Charles Peguy

“Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.”

Training Experience Significant Simplest Suitable

Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.”

Reason Facts Wisdom Lying Universe Deals Ultimate Remains Seeds Deceit Locked New Beginnings Simplest

Author:Hal Borland

“Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.”

Mind Humans Realizing Cat Enormous Limitation Human Mind Simplest Inability Explicit Infuriating

Book:The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever

Source: The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever

“If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you'd conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.”

Ifs Men Want Giving Term Honesty Integrity Promise Simplest Keepers Man Of Integrity

Author:Bill McCartney

“All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.”

Law Principles Concepts Links Construction Simplest Connecting

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.”

Life Found Easy Simple Powerful Our Lives Behavior Approach Direct Simplicity Founding Simplest Constructive Easy Life Positive Behavior

Book:Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions

Source: Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions

“There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to the most perfect forms.”

World Facts Form Science Perfect Animal Theory Development Foundation Vegetables Simplest Geology

Book:Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation

Source: Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation

“The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.”

Way Science Purpose Products Healthy Research Fundamentals Advertising New Things Simplest Dissatisfaction

Author:Charles Kettering

“Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.”

Men Education Teach Practice Obvious Improvement Accustomed Adopted Simplest Hesitation Reluctance

Book:Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder

Source: Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder

“In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization can be replaced by another requirement, in which mention of "whole numbers" no longer occurs. Instead the integers occur in the same natural way as the integers specifying the number of nodes in a vibrating string. The new conception can be generalized, and I believe it touches the deepest meaning of the quantum rules.”

“I have been teaching you all the methods of meditation. You can choose any method that suits you. There are only one hundred and twelve methods; there is no possibility of adding more. It is exhaustive. All the methods possible have been explored. The simplest is witnessing.”

Has Beens Meditation Teaching Possibility Hundred Method Suits Twelve Simplest Suits You

Author:Rajneesh

“In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.”

Giving Art Pleasure Figures Design Color Painting Spread Brilliant Simplest Outlines

Book:Aristotle's Poetics: Demetrius: On Style, and Selections from Aristotle's Rhetoric, Together with Hobbes' Digest and Horace's Ars Poetica

Source: Aristotle's Poetics: Demetrius: On Style, and Selections from Aristotle's Rhetoric, Together with Hobbes' Digest and Horace's Ars Poetica

“Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.”

War Difficult Simple Simplest Friction

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.”

Wells Parent Mankind Human Nature Simplest Adages Wisest

Book:The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers

Source: The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers

“Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions.”

Needs War States Used United United States Military Masters Arms Type Easier Skills Approach Enormous Quantity Warfare Simplest Attrition Enormous Quantities

Author:Jim Dunnigan

“In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.”

War Difficult Simple Military Produce Difficulty Simplest Friction

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.”

Believe Littles Shows Action Belief Reflection Fundamentals Guides Simplest Our Actions

Book:The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong, the Ethics of Belief, the Ethics of Religion

Source: The Scientific Basis of Morals: And Other Essays, Viz. : Right and Wrong, the Ethics of Belief, the Ethics of Religion

“Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.”

Knows Ideas Ability Moral Destiny Impossible Bears Determination Pressure Occasions No Idea Rulers Definite Simplest Irresistible Inexorable Physical Ability

Author:Aleister Crowley

“Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix it." Yet ... every time the government uses its money or its power to favor this group or that ... the net result is such a web of supports, subsidies, interventions and controls that it is almost impossible for a nation to find its way back into a dynamic system of really free enterprise.”

“There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was "style" and a result obtained with simple equipment was more elegant than one obtained with complicated apparatus, just as a mathematical proof derived neatly was better than one involving laborious calculations. Rutherford's first disintegration experiment, and Chadwick's discovery of the neutron had a "style" that is different from that of experiments made with giant accelerators.”

“For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.”

Ifs Want Trying Firsts Science Courses Asks Theory Prove Scientist Aim Simplicity Chosen Being True Alternatives Explanation Routes Retreat Simplest Surviving Scientific Method

Author:Nelson Goodman

“Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.”

People Thinking Way Enough Care Consciousness Creativity Who Cares Simplest

Author:Tim Cook

“Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.”

Reason Games Football Glory Nfl Simplest Best Football The Love Of The Game

Author:Chuck Bednarik

“Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.”

Source: The kingdom of God: and peace essays

“I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in my own work. Indeed, I feel the simplest approach can often be most effective. A subject placed squarely in the center of the frame, if attention is not distracted from it by fussy surroundings, has a simple dignity which makes it all the more impressive.”

Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

“Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.”

Sometimes Photography Hardest Simplest

Author:Neil Leifer

“In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.”

Children Beautiful Form Nature Laughing Sky Rocks Flower Mountain Fairs Blue Clouds Lovely Golden Dawn Diamond Rainbow Hung Simplest Purple Dew Boundless Maidens Admiring Rosy Woodland

Book:The Way to Life: Sermons

Source: The Way to Life: Sermons

“There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit of God, which is the spirit of revelation to every man and woman. It will reveal to them, even in the simplest of matters, what they shall do, by making suggestions to them. We should try to learn the nature of this spirit, that we may understand its suggestions, and then we will always be able to do right. This is the grand privilege of every Latter-day Saint.”

Source: The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.”

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.”

Years Done Government Attention Economy Impossible Society Economic Policy Years Ago Difficulty Fifty Worthwhile Simplest Economic Policy Payoff Worthwhile Things

Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.”

Law Science Demand Scientist Explanation Simplest Reduction Scientific Method

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art.”

Writing Littles Art Song Pieces Lovely Limitation Abstract Songwriting Be You Simplest You Like It Abstract Art

Author:Laura Nyro

“There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art. ... A lot of my songs are very serious, I'm like dead serious about certain things and I feel that I'm writing about the world, through my own eyes. ... I have a love for simple basic song structure, although sometimes you'd never know it. ... Most of the songs I wrote at night. I would just wake in the middle of the night. That's when I found the space to write.”

“Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.”

Writing Song Hardest Songwriting Simplest

Author:Patti Smith

“If you take a sophisticated idea, reduce it to the simplest possible terms so that it’s accessible to everybody, and don’t get simple mixed up with simplistic, it’s how you mount and present something that makes it engaging.”

Ifs Ideas Term Simple Sophisticated Engaging Simplest

Author:Gordon Willis

“Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.”

“A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book.”

Made Book Moments Wonder Strange Reader Letters Embrace Dear Familiar Thanks Apology Confession Sublime Simplest

Author:Christine Schutt

“The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story, and to start with, “secondly.”

People Ifs Way Want Writing Persons Stories Ability Danger Poet Palestinian Simplest

Author:Mourid Barghouti

“The simplest is always the most difficult.”

Difficult Simplest

Author:Masaaki Hatsumi

“Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.”

Ifs Long Enough Able Chance Simplest Chances Are Never Say Never Enough Chances

Author:Gloria Swanson

“The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.”

“In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.”

Way Principles Appeals Splits Simplest Assembly

Author:Jacques Barzun

“I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.”

Made Lasts Difficulty Simplest

Book:Selected Poems of Charles Olson

Source: Selected Poems of Charles Olson

“The simplest way to customize is to phone members of the audience in advance and ask them what they expect from your session and why they expect it. Then use their quotes throughout your presentation.”

Way Use Asks Audience Members Phones Simplest Session Presentation Presentation Skills

Author:Allan Pease

“The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.”

Hands Walks Streets Gun Cynicism Altruism Simplest Surrealism

Author:Andre Breton

“When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.”

Heart Power Peculiar Veins Strain Simplest

Author:Charles Lamb

“Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female; it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.”

Sex Audience Failing Conversation Female Performances Males Attraction Technique Innocent Touching Simplest Continuum

Author:Garrison Keillor

“I've found, however, that real change only comes when we let go of the struggle, when we stop trying, and that the greatest key to healing our vision is also the simplest one: expanding our awareness.”

Trying Real Found Healing Vision Struggle Awareness Keys Letting Go Simplest Expanding Stop Trying Real Change

Book:Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight

Source: Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight

“A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?”

People Want Heart Ideas Force Answers Levels Vision Simplest Shared Vision

Author:Peter Senge

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