Simplest Quotes - Page 5

• The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Views, Mysterious

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• We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Looks, Literacy

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2000). “The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, Doubleday Books

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• What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.

  Albert Camus

  Christian, Heart, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.71, Vintage

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• The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Difficult, Difficult Things

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• There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Clouds, Cycling, Land

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.72, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Clever, People, Trying

  "Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, p. 210, 1909.

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• I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Income, Poverty, Prove

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “"All Labor Has Dignity"”, p.117, Beacon Press

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• Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.

  Tara Brach

  Needs, Exotic, States

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• Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things.

  Biz Stone

  People, Empowering, Tools

  Biz Stone (2014). “Things A Little Bird Told Me”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• The simplest idea of someone coming to your home to pamper you at a time when all your energy is being expended to fight a personal battle, is much more than just feeling good about how you look. Beauty Bus gives its clients renewed internal strength to keep fighting.

  Karen O

  Home, Fighting, Ideas

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• When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

  Richard Gere

  Actors, Safe, Feels

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• The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

  Pharrell Williams

  Home, Thinking, Hands

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

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• A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

  Laurie Colwin

  Giving, Cooking, Persons

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• At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day.

  Michael Leunig

  Nature, Cutting, Thinking

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• I believe in the relatedness of all forms of life from the simplest to the most complex. We humans share the same family tree as all life on earth, back to the first stirrings in the primal ocean.

  Densey Clyne

  Nature, Believe, Ocean

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• Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reading, Book, Fire

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private”, p.114, Ballantine Books

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• The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.

  Barbara Brennan

  Criticism, Kind, Guidance

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• Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

  Irving Chernev

  Moving, Winning, Play

  Irving Chernev (1965). “The most instructive games of chess ever played”

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• Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Important, Asking

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• The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Onions, Soup, Kind

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• If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with 'secondly'.

  Mourid Barghouti

  People, Stories, Want

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• Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.

  Tom Hanks

  Our World, Differences, Choices

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• There are a lot of different paths through the jungle, but...the simplest thing you can do is make yourself useful. Be easy to work with, be a hard worker and help people get the job done. And do it with as much passion and quality as you can.

  Harrison Ford

  Jobs, Hard Work, Passion

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• People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.

  Jack Welch

  People, World, Rockets

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• Miss life's simplest blessings and you'll miss out on life's greatest joys.

  Robin Sharma

  Blessing, Joy, Missing

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jul 30, 2014

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