Simple Quotes

Most things that are true are simple. To lose weight, eat less than you burn. To reduce stress, find a job you love. To resolve conflict, be patient and peaceful. These are very, very simple in that they are complete concepts that take no more than a sentence to say. They are not, however, easy, because they must be applied consistently.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I woke to the sound of rain.

~ Sylvia Plath

You want to do something very simple but also very fantastic? Then sit under the rain! Not long after, yourself will leave you and there will remain only the rain!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Why Worry?If its better when simpler.

~ Mahrukh

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

~ Henry David Thoreau

When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.

~ Bremer Acosta

Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple.

~ Natalie Babbitt

Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects.

~ David Byrne

Sounds simple, doesn’t it, this notion of simplicity? Simple things done simply by a simple person. But it’s not as simple as it seems.

~ Fennel Hudson

Try to keep it simple.

~ Samadara Ginige

Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.

~ Criss Jami

When the peasants and their song had vanished from his sight and hearing, a heavy feeling of anguish at his loneliness, his bodily idleness, his hostility to this world, came over him...It was all drowned in the sea of cheerful common labor. God had given the day, God had given the strength. Both day and strength had been devoted to labour and in that lay the reward...Levin had often admired this life, had often experienced a feeling of envy for the people who lived this life, but that day for the first time...the thought came clearly to Levin that it was up to him to change that so burdensome, idle, artificial and individual life he lived into this laborious, pure and common, lovely life.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.

~ Muhammad Yunus

If you are smart be simple. If you are powerful be generous. If you are rich be humble. If you want to be smart be simple. If you want to be powerful be generous. If you want to be rich be humble.

~ Enock Maregesi

A DNA sequence for the genome of bacteriophage ΦX174 of approximately 5,375 nucleotides has been determined using the rapid and simple 'plus and minus' method. The sequence identifies many of the features responsible for the production of the proteins of the nine known genes of the organism, including initiation and termination sites for the proteins and RNAs. Two pairs of genes are coded by the same region of DNA using different reading frames.

~ Frederick Sanger

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

I wish for a simple life.

~ Fennel Hudson

Keep it small. Keep it simple. Give it time. An exercise program such as yoga is a slow process. It is slow by design. But, in order to secure the gains and add to them, you have to keep it up. And guess what, the more you do it, the more your desire to do it grows. It is the same with building core spiritual muscles. You may have a period of intense growth—perhaps some adversity that drives you to your knees and calls forth the blessings of heaven. But to secure those gains, we must continue to invite the Holy Ghost into our lives—daily.

~ Virginia H. Pearce

A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

~ Amy Tan

The rules are simple!

~ Kazuki Takahashi

If there's anything i can feel, that's to the fact that i will grow even when i fall. Life is too simple to be taken too serious for me. ‪#‎MyDefinition‬

~ Temi 'T Quest' Sholeye

Never wish a legendary love, you don’t know who hard is to have a simple one.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.

~ Steve Maraboli

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.

~ Kerry Stokes

A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.

~ Clayton M. Christensen

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

~ Warren Buffett

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.

~ Diego Della Valle

It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

~ Arthur Eddington

The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the 'thinking men' but among my simple 'backward' people.

~ Peter Abrahams

Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.

~ Jose Andres

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

You've gotta respect everybody. If they race hard against you, you've got to race hard against them. It's very simple; if there's respect both ways, there's no problem.

~ Juan Pablo Montoya

I'm trying to demystify the whole process. Make it simple, make it palatable. I want people to have respect for the law, and I want to educate people on the basics of the law.

~ Joseph Wapner

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

~ Amelia Barr

If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.

~ David Chipperfield

The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.

~ John Tesh

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

~ Isaac Newton

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

~ Jonny Lee Miller

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

~ Ulysses S. Grant