To Be Simple Quotes

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.

Your simple words just don't move me... You're minor, we major. You all up in the game and don't deserve to be a player.

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me!

There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion or an inconsequential act of service. Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

Please... tell me who you are and what you want. And if you think those are simple questions, keep in mind that most people live their entire lives without arriving at an answer.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

I have a simple taste, only the best.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free, Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea.

Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

It's simple: Give thanks and use Dove.

We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.

Above all, keep it simple.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple.

Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

All it takes are a few simple outfits. And there's one secret - The Simpler The Better

Plans must be simple and flexible....They must be made by the people who execute them.

For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing and penetrating it?

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

In a nation where the disbelievers sought Heaven from the idols, the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muhammad] taught them that Heaven can be found through a simple smile.

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

Zidane was from another planet. When Zidane stepped onto the pitch, the 10 other guys just got suddenly better. It is that simple.

It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

You can not have significance in this life if it is all about you. You get your significance, you find your joy in life through service and sacrifice - it's pure and simple.

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.