Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.
To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.
'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
You can either control yourself by simple two lines of bitter truth , OR by confusing yourself in long stories to comfort with a lie
If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?
I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.
In most cases, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.
Reaching beyond ourselves, exceeding our mind is not a simple thing. It is, in fact, impossible–one half of the Ego is trying to exceed the other.
I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.
It's not always the case that doing what's right is also doing what's smart, but when it is, the question of 'what to do' should be pretty simple.
Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.
A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.
I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.
Emphasis was usually put on the horizontal acceleration factor, for the simple reason that ordinary structures have a built-in safety factor for the vertical component; that is, gravity.
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.
I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946
Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.
P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty
Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.