Simplest Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• 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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• A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Children, Shoes, Poor

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• Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dog, Men, My Dog

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• The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

  Oliver Lodge

  Personality, Facts, Able

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• Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Girl, Song, Teaching

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• The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Writing, Life And Death

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Onions, Soup, Kind

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

  Tom Hanks

  Our World, Differences, Choices

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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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• 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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• Worship is simply about value. The simplest definition I can give is this: Worship is our response to what we value most. That’s why worship is that thing we all do. It’s what we’re all about on any given day……….the trail never lies. We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.

  Louie Giglio

  Lying, Giving, Our Words

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

  Laurie Colwin

  Giving, Cooking, Persons

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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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• 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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