To Be Simple Quotes

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.

The answer to the American health crisis is the food that each of us chooses to put in our mouths each day. It's as simple as that.

The aloha spirit is real simple. You give and you give and you give . . . and you give from here (the heart), until you have nothing else to give.

Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

God gives you the sight, the right, and the might to do great things, but you have to develop the fight!

Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.

Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

Slowing down is the precursor to Yoga practice because this simple act allows us to consider our thoughts, feelings and actions more carefully in the light of our desire to live peacefully.

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

What has changed in 40 years? It’s very simple: 40 years ago there was a market economy. Today there is a market society – today everything, including ethics, has a price.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.

My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

All of us are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.

Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must, that's a part of the plan. Await your arrival with simple survival, and one day we'll all understand.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.

A simple smile. That's the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others.

If there's labour shortages, we issue work permits. It's as simple as that.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Simple, yet effective!

The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.

What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.

Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a calling.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

The things you own end up owning you.

We must redefine the American Dream before we rebuild the infrastructure on which it is based.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.