Simplify Quotes - Page 5

• I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Growth, Friendly

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn. And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Reality, Discipline, Meditation

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Feb 12, 2017

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• Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.

  Chester Barnard

  People, Left, Solutions

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• A brand is a storehouse of trust that matters more and more as choices multiply. People want to simplify their lives.

  Niall FitzGerald

  People, Choices, Want

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• I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about. I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.

  Amanda Palmer

  Girl, Bisexual, Thinking

  "Getting Real With Amanda Palmer". Interview with Karman Kregloe, www.afterellen.com. July 18, 2007.

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• I think that's necessary in photography. We try to simplify the chaos that's out there - and that's true of the natural world as well as the mad-made world. Clearly, it's easier in the mad-made world because it has already been structured.

  Bruce Barnbaum

  Photography, Thinking, Mad

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• I try to simplify things for the children.

  Lucile Hadzihalilovic

  Children, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Grow jobs. Get this economy growing. Raise wages. Simplify the tax system, so it's easy to comply with.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Wages, Growing

  "Speaker Ryan's "strange bedfellows" partnership with Trump". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 4, 2016.

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• I think all Geminis are kids at heart. And that's why they're able to simplify some of the most complex things and connect with people. It's having that kid spirit.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Heart, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Simple, Simplicity, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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• We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Treasure, Earth

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• Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

  Toyo Ito

  Needs, Use, Architecture

  "Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.foxnews.com. March 18, 2013.

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• Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Statistics, Falsification

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• Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of the world and selects a picture. A photographer standing before houses and streets and people and trees and artifacts of a culture imposes an order on the scene - simplifies the jumble by giving it structure. He or she imposes this order by choosing a vantage point, choosing a frame, choosing a moment of exposure, and by selecting a plane of focus.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Art, Creativity

  Stephen Shore (2007). “The nature of photographs”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

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• I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.

  Roland Gift

  Self Worth, Wheels, Records

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• Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Men, Principles, Ordinary

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• Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.

  Gerald Weinberg

  Learning, Men, Brain

  Gerald M. Weinberg (2001). “An Introduction to General Systems Thinking”, Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated

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• We suffer the stress of infinite opportunity: There are so many things that we could do, and all we see are people who seem to be performing at star quality. It's very hard not to try to be like them. The problem is, if you get wrapped up in that game, you'll get eaten alive. You can do anything-but not everything. The universe is full of creative projects that are waiting to be done. So, if you really care about quality of life, if you want to relax, then ... control your aspirations. That will simplify things. Learning to set boundaries is incredibly difficult for most people.

  David Allen

  Time, Stars, Stress

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• Didn't think her vision was consistent with the ORC, especially the way the Council wishes to work with the ORC. For example, with regard to the zoning ordinance, the Council sees a comprehensive approach, the ORC wants to review the ordinances and simplify them. Pam's vision was counter to that.

  Norman Foster

  Thinking, Vision, Wish

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• By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

  Scott McCloud

  Artist, Essentials, Stripping

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• Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Life Changing, Hard Work

  "Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Many people become self-conscious when they communicate. Whether it's writing or speaking, they are consumed by anxiety. Self-consciousness is an impediment to what is required to serve an audience effectively. One's goal must be to achieve audience consciousness. To put oneself in their place, to recognize that the value of any communication arises from how it is received by them, not by what it means to the author. Rather than learning a multiplicity of rules for speaking, for example, I would suggest that a focus on serving one's audience will simplify and clarify everything.

  James M Strock

  Communication, Writing, Mean

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• We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Wise, Believe, People

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• It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  Albert Einstein

  Courage, Moving, Simple

  "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

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• To complicate is easy. To simplify is difficult

  Bruno Munari

  Easy, Difficult

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