To Be Simple Quotes

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.

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

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.

I keep things pretty simple.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

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.

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

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.

Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

The most complicated skill is to be simple.

The words of truth are simple.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

Something catches your eye, or your interest. You attack it in some way or observe it in some way, and try to put it in some kind of form and take a picture. It's as simple as that.

The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.

In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.