Plain And Simple Quotes

• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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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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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Faith, Simple

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. 20

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• A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

  Rick Warren

  Simple, Empty Life, Life Is

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

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• Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

  Eugene Kennedy

  Friendship, Real Friends, Simple

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

  George McGovern

  Love, Country, Memorial Day

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• What I saw day-to-day is like people who are actually asking for freedom, calling for freedom - protesting, singing, chanting, calling for the removal of the regime - plain and simple. And of course there were clashes there because people, they tried to remove those protesters from Tahrir. And I was, like, doing my job as a doctor treating them.

  Bassem Youssef

  Jobs, Simple, Doctors

  "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.

  Ann Aguirre

  Running, Stay Strong, Simple

  Ann Aguirre (2014). “Mortal Danger”, p.372, Macmillan

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• The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Book, Simple

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• It's pride, plain and simple, that keeps me from giving God all the glory and keeping some of it for myself. It is a battle we all fight in some form or another, some of us daily or even hourly.

  Francis Chan

  Fighting, Pride, Simple

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.97, David C Cook

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• Fortunately, for me, my main asset is speed. Plain and simple.

  David Haye

  Simple, Speed, Assets

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

  Vash Young

  Simple, Discovery, Long

  Vash Young (2009). “A Fortune to Share”, p.30, Lulu.com

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

  Charles Mingus

  Creativity, Simple, Plain Language

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.

  James Dashner

  Simple, Lazy, Maze Runner

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.77, Scholastic UK

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• Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

  Judith Guest

  Depression, Simple, Giving

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.225, Penguin

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• The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. If you're still at the point when you're even just barely going through the motions--showing up at work, paying the bills--you are still okay or okay enough. A desire not to acknowledge sadness in ourselves or those close to us--better known these days as denial, is such a strong urge that plenty of people prefer to think that until you are actually flying out of a window, you don't have a problem.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Strong, Jobs, Responsibility

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.

  Jay-Z

  Simple, Thinking, People

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• I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Simple, Greed

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• Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you have the right to treat her exactly as you please because she didn’t adhere to your archaic views of feminine propriety is misogyny, plain and simple.

  Clementine Ford

  Simple, Views, Order

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• You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.

  Eric Cantor

  Kids, Simple, Train Wrecks

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• Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' - it's just, we can grow by putting up lots and lots of buildings and trying to attract people to come here, stay here, and put up offices here and sooner or later, you put up too many.

  James Chanos

  Simple, Dubai, Office

  "Q&A With Jim Chanos Part I: 'Greece Is A Prelude'". Interview with Vince Veneziani, www.businessinsider.com. April 13, 2010.

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• What part of no don't you understand. To put it plain and simple, I'm not into one night stands.

  Lorrie Morgan

  Sex, Simple, Night

  Song: What Part of No

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