To Be Simple Quotes

The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

My job, challenges, and simple things like waking up, going to my patio, and seeing that an hibiscus or a camellia opened during the night. It just makes me happy.

A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

Artfulness is not simple entertainment, especially during upheaval, unleashing creative life is sacred duty.

Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.

It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.

The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.

Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.

I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

[I like] nothing that screams I'm a celebrity. I like simple styles.

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

People write to me and say, 'I'm giving up, you're not talking to me.' I just write them a simple message like, 'Never give up,' you know? And it changes their life.

To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.

The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.

Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.

I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

I keep things pretty simple.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

It's the Simple things that are really effective. Try to remember that.

No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.

It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?

Simple version for me is, umm, started bad and finished bad basically.

God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

Simple, like uncarved wood.

Everyone is in love with the impossible; the impossible gives you neverending dreams and neverending hopes.

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.

Simple doesn't mean stupid. Thinking that it does, does.

Why should the simple fact of your having more money entitle you to a greater share of the Earth's limited natural resources?

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

It's not so simple to just walk into the desert and cleanse your soul like some new age, snap your fingers, it's all done.