Simplest Quotes - Page 18

• The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Discipline, Want

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• Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.

  Mark Nepo

  Life, Fall, Worry

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Jul 24, 2012

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• In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things.

  Peter Medawar

  Chemicals, Genetics, Process

  Peter Brian Medawar (1996). “The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science”, p.2, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What we're starting to see is that the best apps tend to be the simplest, the easiest to use and the fastest to use.

  Dennis Crowley

  Use, Starting, Apps

  "Why Foursquare should be on everyone's phone" by Alex Hern, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.

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• The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: even the simplest food is a gift.

  Laurie Colwin

  Safety, Giving, Cooking

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• After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative.

  Bruce Feiler

  Strong, Important, May

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• Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the next simplest, limited monarchies; but all republics, all governments of law, must impose numerous limitations and qualifications of authority, and give many positive and many qualified rights.

  Daniel Webster

  Rights, Government, Law

  Daniel Webster, James Rees (1839). “The Beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: Selected and Arranged, with a Critical Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.83

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• Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands, and the mouth.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Peace, Hands, Mouths

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• Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.

  Robert J. Havighurst

  Life, Money, Two

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• The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.

  Heather Morris

  Together, Legs, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Effort

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• When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no worry, anticipation, or regret. This means that the mind is left open to Being, the simplest state of awareness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Regret

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Essence of the Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, p.114, Harmony

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• I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.

  Anne Truitt

  Form, Maximum

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• Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.

  Questlove

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary, natural and chance experiences in which there appears to be nothing unusual. The simplest sermon, the most banal conversations, the least erudite books become a source of knowledges and wisdom to these souls by virtue of God's purpose. This is why they carefully pick up the crumbs which clever minds tread underfoot, for to them everything is precious and a source of enrichment.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Clever, Book, Mean

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• The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

  Aaron Allston

  Answers, Razors, Principles

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• Drumming is the simplest thing that we can do to bring us together.

  Babatunde Olatunji

  Together, Drumming, Can Do

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• It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

  James Rosenquist

  Beautiful, Mean, Painting

  "Art Space Talk: James Rosenquist". Interview with Brian Sherwin, myartspace-blog.blogspot.ru. April 04, 2008.

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• It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in the world is done by men who never taste anything but vegetable, farinaceous food, and that of the simplest kind. There are more strength-producing properties in wholemeal flour, peas, beans, lentils, oatmeal, roots, and other vegetables of the same class, than there are beef or mutton, poultry or fish, or animal food of any description whatever.

  Catherine Booth

  Men, Animal, Oatmeal

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• The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Simple, Said, Persons

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2010). “The Nobodies Album”, p.165, Anchor

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• The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

  David Hume

  Words Of Wisdom, Causes, Obvious

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1189, Delphi Classics

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• What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?

  Ward Cunningham

  "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part V". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. January 19, 2004.

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• The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being, the frequencies of oscillation and the interactions between those frequencies are multitudinous.

  George Leonard

  Numbers, Humanity, Different

  George Leonard (2009). “The Silent Pulse”, p.23, Gibbs Smith

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• Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story.

  Erskine Caldwell

  Art, Southern, Listening

  Erskine Caldwell (1988). “Conversations with Erskine Caldwell”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.

  Geoff Davis

  Years, Ideas, Two

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