Simple Quotes - Page 26

• It takes a long time to make it simple.

  David Hockney

  Long, Long Time

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• My son loves my carbonara. I've tried to master that recipe - it's very simple but very delicate. Once prepared it must be eaten quickly.

  Andy Garcia

  Son, Recipes, Masters

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• Leadership is simple: Add value to people everyday.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  People, Everyday, Add

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• The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story adequately enough in what we have termed culturally common stories. To some extent, the stories of a culture are observable by inspecting the vocabulary of that culture. Often entire stories are embodied in one very culture-specific word. The story words unique to a culture reveal cultural differences.

  Roger Schank

  Unique, Vocabulary, Differences

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• Our free trade plan is quite simple. We say that every [citizen] shall have the right to buy whatever he wants, wherever he wants, at his own good pleasure, without restriction or discouragement from the state.

  Winston Churchill

  Citizens, Want, Pleasure

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• Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.

  Nikola Tesla

  Song, Land, Play

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Making something simple is very difficult.

  Jack Dorsey

  Difficult

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• One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

  Guy Finley

  Practice, Important, Principles

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• Good Deeds Day is based on a simple idea that every person can do a good deed for the benefit of others and the planet. Even a smile that brightens someone else's day is a good deed. I initiated Good Deeds Day to spread the message that everyone can give of themselves, according to their heart's desire.

  Shari Arison

  Heart, Ideas, Kind Deeds

  "Women in Business Q&A: Shari Arison, Owner the Arison Group" by Laura Dunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2014.

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• Rummy is the best-known of all card games played in the United States. Its popularity is due partly to the fact that it is so simple. Any person with a knowledge of the basic game can easily learn any form of it.

  Albert H. Morehead

  Games, Facts, United States

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• I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Writing, Plain Language

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.65, Chartwell

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• Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.

  Wayne Muller

  Taken, Together, Gestures

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• I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around the world and I want to have close contact with these people. I want to contribute to harmony and peace of mind, for less conflict. Wherever the possibililty is, I'm ready. This is my life's goal.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Years, People

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• These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

  Edgar Degas

  Keyholes, Decent, Concern

  "Degas bronze for auction" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2002.

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• Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates! Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry?

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Fall, Apples

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• Don't confuse simple, reasonable honesty with radical silliness. There is no reason to try to articulate blurry feelings or over-explain every detail. The point is to be honest instead of internalizing, not to try to extract juicy confessionals out of everyday life.

  Ann Burton

  Honesty, Feelings, Everyday

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• For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.

  Jack Welch

  Organization

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• The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually will only work if they change perceptions and values. Why not go the direct route and work with perceptions and values?

  Edward de Bono

  Perception, Why Not, Bombs

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• If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.

  Patrick Dixon

  Price Tag, Secret, Unhappy

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• You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. It's simple, fantasize, rehearse, then go out into the world and DO IT!

  Henry Ford

  World, Reputation

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• Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed.

  Confucius

  What Matters, Focus, Overwhelmed

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• In the middle of this despair [of postwar Germany], my family learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the healing message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. This message made all the difference; it lifted us above our daily misery. Life was still thorny and the circumstances still horrible, but the gospel brought light, hope, and joy into our lives. The plain and simple truths of the gospel warmed our hearts and enlightened our minds. They helped us look at ourselves and the world around us with different eyes and from an elevated viewpoint.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Eye, Healing

  "Have We Not Reason to Rejoice?". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. November 2007.

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• Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

  Alfred Marshall

  Running, Long, Trying

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Beginning today, make the decision to love and accept yourself just the way you are. Say your name followed by the words "I love you" and make this your daily mantra, repeating it often, especially during times of stress. Let it be your first thought upon arising and the last you think before falling asleep at night. This simple act of self-courtship can profoundly change your world. Try it for yourself and see. Make a personal decision to be in love with the most beautiful, exciting, worthy person ever - you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Beautiful, Stress, Fall

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• The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the most ambitious creations of the human spirit, . . .so magnificent, so daring, that it has rightly aroused the greatest admiration. If we wish to save the world from barbarism we have to refute Socialism, but we cannot thrust it carelessly aside.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ideas, Wish, Ambitious

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