Ease Quotes

• If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

  Xunzi

  Sincerity, Foresight, Ifs

  Xunzi (1999). “Xunzi”

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• That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

  Ben Kingsley

  Flesh, Longing, Hunger

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2001.

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• The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

  Corazon Aquino

  Light, Media, People

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• A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  New York, Europe, Cities

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.269, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

  Donald Justice

  Journey, Land, Silence

  Donald Justice (2009). “New And Selected Poems”, p.38, Knopf

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.

  Leslie Caron

  Hate, Arrogant Person, Trying

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• Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

  Armstrong Williams

  Sports, Confidence, Dream

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• The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.

  Paul Volcker

  Moving, Communication, Differences

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• When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

  Edie Brickell

  Kids, Wish, Looks

  "Edie Brickell ready for 'Picture Perfect' comeback". www.today.com. December 31, 2003.

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• Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

  Terence Stamp

  Trying

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• God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

  Frank Knox

  Family, Heaven, Bed

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• It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

  Bobby Womack

  Song, Soul, Wish

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• Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Please, Poor Richard, Ought

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.63, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Memories, Struggle

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• If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

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• Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home -- at ease.

  Surya Das

  Letting Go, Regret, Home

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• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

  Alexander Pope

  Dance, Art, Moving

  "The Works of Alexander Pope".

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• Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Bridges, Voice, People

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Business, Work

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Real

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• I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Simple, Effort

  "A Personal Credo". Essay by Ansel Adams (1943), first published in "American Annual of Photography," 1944; later published in "Photographers on Photography" edited by Nathan Lyons, 1966, and in "Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present" edited by Vicki Goldberg, 1988.

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• The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Creative, Etching

  "A Personal Credo". Essay by Ansel Adams (1943), first published in "American Annual of Photography," 1944; later published in "Photographers on Photography" edited by Nathan Lyons, 1966, and in "Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present" edited by Vicki Goldberg, 1988.

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• All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.55

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• Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Lying, Winning

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