Simplest Quotes - Page 10

• To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.

  George Spencer-Brown

  Reading, Math, Thinking

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• Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

  Patty Duke

  Matter, Stuff, Sometimes

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• Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.

  Horace Greeley

  Sports, Mean, Eye

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• The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

  Mark Twain

  Coffee, Average, Breakfast

  Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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• The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

  Andre Breton

  Gun, Hands, Cynicism

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• The simplest way to customize is to phone members of the audience in advance and ask them what they expect from your session and why they expect it. Then use their quotes throughout your presentation.

  Allan Pease

  Phones, Use, Way

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• I have had to learn the simplest things
  last. Which made for difficulties.

  Charles Olson

  Lasts, Made, Difficulty

  Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.101, Univ of California Press

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• In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

  Jacques Barzun

  Principles, Splits, Way

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• The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.

  Alison Lurie

  Children, Views, Shopping

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• Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

  Gloria Swanson

  Long, Enough Chances, Able

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• The simplest is always the most difficult.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Difficult

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• I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Lying, Science

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Ch. 14, 1897.

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• A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book.

  Christine Schutt

  Book, Apology, Sublime

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• Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.

  Michael Denton

  Men, Cells, Atoms

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• Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me of simplification, to cut down to the simplest possible elements of four legs, a seat and combined top rail and arm rest.

  Hans Wegner

  Cutting, Style, Elements

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• If you take a sophisticated idea, reduce it to the simplest possible terms so that it’s accessible to everybody, and don’t get simple mixed up with simplistic, it’s how you mount and present something that makes it engaging.

  Gordon Willis

  Simple, Ideas, Sophisticated

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• When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

  Charles Lamb

  Heart, Power, Peculiar

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• I've found, however, that real change only comes when we let go of the struggle, when we stop trying, and that the greatest key to healing our vision is also the simplest one: expanding our awareness.

  Jacob Liberman

  Letting Go, Real, Struggle

  Jacob Liberman (2011). “Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight”, p.97, Harmony

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• Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

  Stephen King

  Children, Dark, Belief

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.908, Simon and Schuster

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• I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a hundred alternative routes present themselves. I choose one, no sooner begin, than a hundred more appear. Every time I try to narrow down my intent I expand it, and yet those straits and canals still lead me to the open sea, and then I realize how vast it all is, this matter of the mind. I am confounded by the shining water and the size of the world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Journey, Sea, Water

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.115, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Prayer, Powerful

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• Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female; it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sex, Touching, Technique

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• After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?

  Tad Williams

  Profound, Bending, World

  Tad Williams (2002). “Otherland 4: Sea of Silver Light”, p.584, Penguin

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• The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Commitment, Meals

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• Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

  Jerry Gillies

  Money, World, Dollars

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