Simple Quotes - Page 31

• I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.

  Anders Petersen

  Long, Care, Want

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• [I]n general, my work is less about expanding the possibilities of photography than about re-investing it with a truer perception of things by returning to a simple method, one that photography had from the beginning of its existence.

  Thomas Struth

  Photography, Perception, Investing

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• Living isn't a simple thing...no one said it's supposed to be.

  Art Alexakis

  Said, Supposed To Be, Simple Things

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• I know a lot of people who wouldn't be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don't understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

  Dave Grohl

  Play, People, Appreciate

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• Simplicity is all. Simple logic, simple arguments, simple visual images. If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument. There's nothing long-winded about 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Long, Simplicity, Phrases

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• We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

  Jerry Garcia

  Good Life, Simple Life, Able

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• You are rich if you have enough money to satisfy all your desires. So there are two ways to be rich: you earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet all your desires; or you cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires; that way you always have enough money.

  Dan Millman

  Two, Desire, Way

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In fact, most of the changes found in early Christian manuscripts have nothing to do with theology or ideology. Far and away the most changes are the result of mistakes pure and simple slips of the pen, accidental omissions, inadvertent additions, misspelled words, blunders of one sort or another.

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Christian, Mistake, Omission

  Bart D. Ehrman (2008). “Whose Word is It?: The Story Behind who Changed the New Testament and why”, p.55, A&C Black

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• When you're in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that's what they want you to be, and that's what you should just be, and for me, it's very simple - if I meet a girl and I say, 'This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day'

  Marilyn Manson

  Girl, People, Want

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• The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

  Groucho Marx

  Shoes, Alps, Lord

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• Giving is a miracle that can transform the heaviest of hearts. Two people, who moments before lived in separate worlds of private concerns, suddenly meet each other over a simple act of sharing. The world expands, a moment of goodness is created, and something new comes into being where before there was nothing... But true giving is not an economic exchange; it is a generative act. It does not subtract from what we have; it multiplies the effect we can have in the world.

  Kent Nerburn

  Heart, Two, People

  "Simple Truths: Clear & Gentle Guidance on the Big Issues in Life". Book by Kent Nerburn, 1996.

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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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• No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones, practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.

  Adrienne Rich

  Exercise, Goes On, Chance

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• And we have much better examples of the government not intervening to curtain parental rights, much worse abuse than a simple tap on the hand or a spank is perpetrated by many parents across the country, trust me.

  Sean Hannity

  Country, Rights, Government

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from reading Thich Nhat Hahn books. Those things can be joyful but I think it’s the small, simple joys of playing with dogs or having sex with someone you love or going for a walk outside, stuff that we tend to ignore.

  Moby

  Spiritual, Dog, Sex

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

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• The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.

  Bill Ayers

  Eye, Reality, Looks

  "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• I believe 100% when your heart & mind are in the right place and there is no pretense, great things will come. It's that simple!

  Jimmy Wayne

  Believe, Heart, Mind

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• 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

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• 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

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• For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.

  Jack Welch

  Real, Self Confidence, Insecure

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• Astrologers are influenced by theosophy, so they say, "That is very simple, it is just vibration!" ... But what is vibration? They say it is light energy, perhaps electricity, they are not quite informed. At all events the vibrations that could influence us have never been seen, so it remains just a word.

  Carl Jung

  Light, Astrology, Energy

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• The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'

  Tim Ferriss

  Asking, Results, Worst

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