To Be Simple Quotes

I avoid social networks and I try to live a very normal, simple life. I love spending time and hang out with my friends any time I can. I like a very simple life.

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

I'm not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

We have to make good use of the time we have. That simple. We have to wake up every day, knowing that it's not just an ordinary day. We have to take the moment, seize each day.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had, visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.

Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.

Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.

What we really need is to realize how little we really need.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.

Sometimes bravery is as simple as following your gut.

My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful.

Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.

Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.

I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.

He liked her; it was as simple as that.

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.

I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark.

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.

When we love what is, it becomes so simple to live in the world. The world is exactly as it should be.

My message is very simple and universal, not very intellectual, but humane. Just love each other and live.

The simple definition of evangelism: Those who know, telling those who don't.

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

Our approach was very simple. It was about creating a universal language. A show that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big thing.

What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?