Simple Things Quotes - Page 7

• Normalcy to me is enjoying the simple things in life.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Simple, Things In Life, Normalcy

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• If you're going somewhere East from here, generally what you want to do is you want to try to have your bed time earlier and earlier so what we'll do is I'll have someone adjust for a week or two by going to be 15 minutes earlier and getting up 15 minutes earlier every night. So that can be a really simple thing.

  Shelby Harris

  Simple, Night, Two

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• It is difficult to discuss... history.. it is more difficult to talk about today.. simple things…

  Thabo Mbeki

  Simple, Today, Difficult

  Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  New York, Dirty, Humor

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• As a kid growing up, the most simple things would make me so, so excited. I remember the first time my dad got a let-out couch; you could sleep in it like a bed and my sister and I just thought that was so magical.

  Keke Palmer

  Dad, Growing Up, Sleep

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a very sensitive person at times. Not just to words that anybody says, but in relationships for example, the people that you open up to, you listen to, you hear - you know? So a lot of times, the key to some of my vulnerability is just through things, simple things - or critiques or whatever - or could be very simple things that are said.

  Saul Williams

  Simple, Keys, Sensitive Person

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• People have to see it for what it is, but they would be so shocked to know two simple things that I just really never shared with anyone, but I spank my child at times. He didn't move a muscle, not one inch, and he didn't drop one tear. I tell you that and you are probably like, "Wow, how is that even possible?" But little details like that is not what people are able to see, and that makes the world of difference to the outcome of the situation.

  Adrian Peterson

  Children, Moving, Simple

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.

  Debra Hamel

  Simple, Decision, Obvious

  Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com

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• I was really interested in a pretty simple thing: what happens when someone tries to introduce moral considerations into Wall Street, what happens when someone wants to actually demand of himself and those who work with him that what they do is not just profitable but good and useful.

  Michael Lewis

  Wall, Simple, Trying

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Simple, Opposites, Ideas

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• Sometimes we should express our gratitude for the small and simple things like the scent of the rain, the taste of your favorite food, or the sound of a loved one's voice.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Gratitude, Rain, Simple

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• Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.

  Celia Green

  Simple, People, Secret

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1981). “Advice to clever children”

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• Sometimes people can only imagine that I live a glamorous life 24/7, which I don't. I just like the most natural and simple things. That's what makes me happy.

  Izabel Goulart

  Simple, People, Sometimes

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• Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.

  Ron White

  Baseball, Commitment, Simple

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• it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Home, Simple

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• My golden retriever, Callie, is so easy to please. She finds great pleasure in our day-to-day routine, which helps me to enjoy the simple things. She loves to jump on the couch with her favorite toys and roll around while I clap my hands.

  Kristin Davis

  Simple, Hands, Pet

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• Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years from now, we will have space tourism where you will be able to see the black sky and the curvature of the earth. It will be the most exciting roller coaster ride you can buy.

  Burt Rutan

  Future, Simple, Should Have

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• Focus on what you know you can do. Know what you're capable of on any given day, and what you can count on. Do the simple things well, and then use the confidence to build up the rest of your game. Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

  Mia Hamm

  Simple, Games, Focus

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• Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Death, Summer

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• I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.

  Dolly Parton

  Kids, Simple, Inspire

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• I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

  Amy Adams

  Holiday, Simple

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• What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

  Jean Cocteau

  Simple, People, Style

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• The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add more momentum to that (search), strengthen that momentum. That is the question of all questions: "How, how, how?"

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Life, Simple, Self

  "The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti".

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• I knew a lot of chords, but they weren't the chords that came with the melody that came with the idea I had for the song. Melodies are simple things. If you see a train wreck, there's a melody. If you see a little daisy blowing in the breeze, there's a melody.

  Tom T. Hall

  Song, Writing, Simple

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• I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.

  Queen Latifah

  Simple, Things In Life, Bigs

  BBC Interview, January 2003.

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