Simplest Quotes - Page 18

• It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Effort

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• What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?

  Ward Cunningham

  "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part V". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. January 19, 2004.

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• Should we now explain to UK couples who plan a family that stopping at two children, or at least having one less than first intended, is the simplest and biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet for our grandchildren?

  John Guillebaud

  Children, Couple, Two

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• With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

  William of Ockham

  Occam's Razor, Equal, Explanation

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• The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Discipline, Want

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• The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

  Mircea Eliade

  Definitions, Way, Metaphysics

  "The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom". Book by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross, 2011.

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• I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.

  Lucian Freud

  Drama, People, Creative

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• A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Looks, Form

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

  Henry Ford

  World, Way, Complicated

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• It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simplicity, Culture, Matter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty”, p.95

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• The single most effective way to make a service as reliable as possible is to make it as simple as possible. Find the simplest solution that meets all the requirements.

  Tom Limoncelli

  Simple, Simplicity, Requirements

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• One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

  Mother Teresa

  Spring, Shopping, Luxury

  "No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition".

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• The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.

  Carl Sagan

  Numbers, Logical, Concepts

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• The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites, love affairs; there are the lives of people, Gods, entire galaxies. The simplest human action varies from one person and occasion to the next-how else would we recognize our friends only from their gait, posture, voice, and divine their changing moods? Only a tiny fraction of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Dream, War, Blessing

  "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being".

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• Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of hypothermia, or in making up for inadequate clothing, bedding, or shelter.

  Mors Kochanski

  Fire, Survival, Shelter

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• I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I did that in college. I did it when I carried my papers. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them, I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them. Before long, I probably knew more students than anybody in the university, and they recognized me and considered me their friend.

  Sam Walton

  Leadership, College, Names

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.19, Bantam

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• First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind. Move scientifically: first the simplest, then the complex, then the more complex. And then only can you relax at the ultimate core.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Moving, Relaxation

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• I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it. It's like driving a car. It's simple if you know how to do it.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Learning, Optimistic

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• When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no worry, anticipation, or regret. This means that the mind is left open to Being, the simplest state of awareness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Regret

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Essence of the Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, p.114, Harmony

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• I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.

  Anne Truitt

  Form, Maximum

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• The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that 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

  Writing, People, Stories

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• The best design is the simplest one that works.

  Albert Einstein

  Design, Best Design

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• Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of the most ordinary, natural and chance experiences in which there appears to be nothing unusual. The simplest sermon, the most banal conversations, the least erudite books become a source of knowledges and wisdom to these souls by virtue of God's purpose. This is why they carefully pick up the crumbs which clever minds tread underfoot, for to them everything is precious and a source of enrichment.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Clever, Book, Mean

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• The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Simple, Said, Persons

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2010). “The Nobodies Album”, p.165, Anchor

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• The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

  Aaron Allston

  Answers, Razors, Principles

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