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“The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring, surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him. More than delivering strikes and slashes, and deeper in significance than the simple outwitting of an enemy, Ninpô is the way of attaining that which we need while making the world a better place. The skill of the Ninja is the art of winning.”

World Way Needs Art Artist Winning Simple Enemy Skills Endure Deeper Strikes Martial Arts Significance Better Place Surviving Delivering Prevailing Ninja Martial Artist Outwitting

Author:Toshitsugu Takamatsu

“If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.”

Ifs Children Facts Easy Simple Education Skills Claims Despite Print Spontaneous Learning To Read

Book:The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition

Source: The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition

“Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not. In every atom, He alone is present. From the ant to the universe, He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.”

Ends God Care Universe Sides Simple Lord Pure Skills Complexes Spread Holiness Subtle Compassionate Atoms Tenderness Who Cares Gross Ants Simple And Complex

Author:Vinoba Bhave

“What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use of knowledge already in their possession; enable them to apply simple, sometimes self-evident, truths to the guidance of their common life.”

Men Self Sometimes Use Social Simple Common Particular Type Development Needed Skills Possession Guidance Evident Common Life Use Of Knowledge

Book:Let the People Know

Source: Let the People Know

“Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.”

Simple Skills Perfection

Author:Douglas Horton

“If I were advising President Obama, since he's the one running, I would have made his campaign very simple. I promise that in four years, I will get more Americans, as many as I possibly can, the opportunity and access to some form of post-secondary education. I want more of them to graduate high school with the skill-set of post-secondary education and I want more of them to be able to obtain that post-secondary education. This is the only way we are going to close the income gap.”

“It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.”

Literature Easy Difficult Simple Sacrifice Skills Simplicity Complicated Execution

Author:John Ruskin

“We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.”

Men Giving Dies Fighting Simple Skills Safety Property Simple Things

Author:Esther Forbes

“Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.”

“The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don’t even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, “What are you trying to teach me?” Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real.” From Everything Belongs, p. 143”

Needs Giving Trying Real Asks Social Simple Teach Emotional Skills Anxiety Evidence Performances Shame Intimacy Assault Appearing Social Skills Acronyms

Author:Richard Rohr

“We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a sort of gas that exists when you believe in its existence and disappears when you doubt. The task of supporting it seems simple at first glance, but actually requires an ultimate refinement of calculation and a consummate skill.”

Firsts Believe Hands Seems Simple Existence Doubt Arms Skills Tasks Ultimate Disappear Gas Glances Calculations Refinement

Book:Confessions of a Mask

Source: Confessions of a Mask

“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”

Difficult Leadership Simple Learning Skills Patience Acquire Difficult Things Simple Things Having Patience Life Patience Great Patience Short Patience

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“The most complicated skill Is to be simple.”

Simple Skills Simplicity Complicated

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care.”

Men Wells Littles Long Enough Care Age Force Lines Simple Enemy Century Masters Battle Skills Ancient Details Heavy Core Tactics Battlefields Infantry Finesse

Author:Robert Jordan