To Be Simple Quotes

If, since the start, I'd played well and put in some good matches it would all have been too simple.

I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.

My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing.

Savasana is the easiest and most important yoga move because it's so simple. Lying there is meditative.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

We create our own worlds. We destroy our own worlds. It is that simple.

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

In racing, the fastest person wins. It is very simple.

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.

The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.

Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.

I built a system simple enough to sustain itself.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.

My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.

Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.

My approach is neither of attachment nor of detachment, but of simple understanding.

Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.

It’s simple: when God is for you, who can be against you?

Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

Just the simple process of letting go of negative thoughts will allow your natural state of health to emerge within you.

I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.

The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.

Why fly? Simple. I'm not happy unless there's some room between me and the ground.

The best advice I ever received? Simple: Have no regrets.

The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce our vulnerability to high prices, the best way to do so is to reduce consumption.

If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one.

During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to do it all?" The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly.

I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.

Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.