Simple Quotes

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.

I feel confident because I'm the best player in the world. It's that simple.

Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.

I agree with Warren to keep it simple and not use higher mathematics in your analysis.

Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.

Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills.

So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.

simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them".

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

That principle can be summed up in three simple words. Thoughts Become Things!

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.

God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.

The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.

I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

In inorganic chemistry the radicals are simple; in organic chemistry they are compounds—that is the sole difference.

Success simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. Choose to succeed.

Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face, how you make your breakfast.

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.

No matter what it is you are cooking, buy the best ingredients you can afford. I don't care if it's a simple salad or Beef Wellington. A quality product stands alone and won't need any dressing up.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death.

It's not possible to have a problem without believing a prior thought. To notice this simple truth is the beginning of peace.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple!

Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.