Simplest Quotes

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The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

The greatest thing that I have learned is probably the simplest thing any of us can learn: I am who I am.

Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

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

If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with 'secondly'.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

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

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

Sometimes the simplest pictures are the hardest to get.

Begin with the simplest examples.

There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do what has to be done day after day, and you never quit.

Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not.

Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

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

I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.

I have a 'Play The Melody' philosophy. It means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it the simplest way possible.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

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

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

The best design is the simplest one that works.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

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

After a while, a surprising theme emerged. The single most important thing you can do for your family may be the simplest of all: Develop a strong family narrative.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

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

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.

Tactics involve calculations that can tax the human brain, but when you boil them down, they are actually the simplest part of chess and are almost trivial compared to strategy.

Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again

The simplest things are often the truest.

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another - desire, by another name - is the source of almost every sorrow.

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.

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to fly or to walk on air - which I feel is all possible.