Simple Quotes - Page 22

• Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.

  Patrice Leconte

  Stories, Love Story, Film

  4 Copy quote

• There's so much more you can do with the dynamics of songs when they're simple... I think it was what I needed in my life - there was a lot going on, a lot of layers.

  Sarah Blasko

  Song, Thinking, Dynamics

  4 Copy quote

• The music I was writing for 'Hamlet' needed to be very simple because there was so much going on with the dialogue in that play, so I felt like the music had to complement that - so that carried on through; I was working on the soundtrack and the album simultaneously.

  Sarah Blasko

  Writing, Play, Albums

  4 Copy quote

• It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.

  John Travolta

  Exercise, Difficult, Willing

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The criticism is that it's too simple, but my feeling is it's more of a challenge making someone feel an emotion in four notes than in 25 notes.

  Kenny G

  Challenges, Feelings, Criticism

  4 Copy quote

• Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath: "You are with me."

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Jesus, Prayer

  "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Domino Effect could stand for anything. It could be just the simple game of the domino rocks falling off one after another, all kinds of decision we make that come back to our face. For example take an anorexic model that stops eating until she dies, or the bombs that a are thrown in a war and the effect they have on people, or even something simple as listening to a record that you like until you get bored of it and leave it in your shelf.

  Leo Lionni

  War, Fall, Rocks

  8 Copy quote

• If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would be an essay entitled 'The Use of Knowledge in Society,' published in the American Economic Review of September 1945, and written by F. A. Hayek . . In this plain and apparently simple essay was a deeply penetrating insight into the way societies function and malfunction, and clues as to why they are so often and so profoundly misunderstood.

  Thomas Sowell

  Writing, Decision, Misunderstood

  "Knowledge and Decisions". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1980.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.

  David Elkind

  Children, People, Feelings

  David Elkind (1981). “The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.

  Lloyd D. Newell

  Kindness, What Matters, Essence

  5 Copy quote

• The essence of training is the experience of training and what you learn about yourself through it. Training is about the process. You will get there and there is one simple thing to do it. Consistency.

  Martyn Rooney

  Essence, Consistency, Training

  6 Copy quote

• One of the things cognitive science teaches us is that when people define their very identity by a worldview, or a narrative, or a mode of thought, they are unlikely to change-for the simple reason that it is physically part of their brain, and so many other aspects of their brain structure would also have to change; that change is highly unlikely.

  George Lakoff

  People, Brain, Identity

  George Lakoff (2008). “The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics”, p.45, Penguin

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Historically different groups find different things in each comics, as with *X-Men*. Gay readers find parallels to living a closeted lifestyle or choosing to come out and be openly gay. Black readers find a relevance to their lives growing up in America as a black guy. Picked-on brainy kids find a metaphor for being an outsider. It's a simple enough, and direct enough metaphor that it has different shades for different people. And so each reader to some degree gets out of it what they bring to it. That's one of the things I think that makes *X-Men* such a strong property.

  Tom Brevoort

  Strong, Growing Up, Kids

  4 Copy quote

• Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life.

  George Will

  Improvement, Individual, Rules Of Life

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are Germans. We are Armenians. French, Italian, Russian, American, Asian, African... many other nationalities. We are Christians, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu. We are black, we are white. We are a community of some many differences, so complex and yet so simple. We do not need to have war!

  Michael Jackson

  Christian, War, Italian

  12 Copy quote

• Considering the inconceivable complexity of processes even in a simple cell, it is little short of a miracle that the simplest possible model - namely, a linear equation between two variables - actually applies in quite a general number of cases.

  Ludwig von Bertalanffy

  Two, Numbers, Cells

  17 Copy quote

• In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that keep moving into territory that is more and more unfathomable and uncomfortable - nothing's ever simple or neatly resolved. You're left with a mystery.

  Martin Scorsese

  Moving, People, Needs

  "Martin Scorsese channels his inner film critic on ‘The Searchers’" by Guy Lodge, uproxx.com. March 8, 2013.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• If only I had known a year ago what I'd be facing now. Until last year I lived with the innocent arrogance that my life was a simple product of effort, will, and design. But now I am a house of cards, held precariously by the fragile conspiracy of wind, weight, and angle. Perhaps it is best we cannot see into our futures.

  Martha Manning

  Years, Wind, House Of Cards

  4 Copy quote

• Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

  Peter Kreeft

  Achievement, Insane, Ordinary

  4 Copy quote

• At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely the point.

  Nhat Hanh

  Stress, Silly, Littles

  Various, Ledi Sayadaw, Bhikkhu Khantipalo, Nyanaponika Thera, Padmasiri de Silva (2012). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247”, p.66, Buddhist Publication Society

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The casting is very simple actually, but it is very important. You choose the best actor for the role, and you test them and you test them, and you bring them back, and you have to make sure the actors fit the roles.

  Hany Abu-Assad

  Important, Roles, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the reasons I think the population question is important, if we want to be as green as possible, any of our energy that is truly renewable is limited. Solar and wind are intermittent and they're so diffuse, it's difficult to harness them in a significant way. But one thing we could be doing is making it a law (like it is in Israel and Cyprus) to take every building eight stories or under and heat all of the water in those buildings with solar energy. It's absolutely simple and cheap technology.

  Alan Weisman

  Thinking, Technology, Eight

  Source: www.today.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.

  DJ Spooky

  Sampling, Eras, Paradoxical

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• In certain cases I don't want to sell tracks individually; I want to only sell the whole album. With simple things like that I just don't get any response [from iTunes]. I don't want to kill iTunes - I just want to offer my own retail experience in my own tiny corner of the Internet.

  DJ Shadow

  Track, Albums, Retail

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think the question is if should we have a shield law. I think the question is what kind of shield law we should have. Yes, I'd like to see a federal shield law, but if and only if it provides genuine safeguards and doesn't green-light prosecutors and judges and litigants from going after the press and getting things to which they should not be entitled. It's not a simple kind of litmus test.

  Ted Gup

  Thinking, Law, Ifs And

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source