Simple Quotes

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

Keep it simple.

Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.

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

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

I'm a simple, simple man.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

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

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.