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..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.
If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works.
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.
If you do not ensure that people are being paid a living wage, then you are going to have people who rely on government assistance. It is that simple.
I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.
In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.
A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
Because golf exposes the flaws of the human swing - a basically simple maneuver - it causes more self-torture than any game short of Russian roulette.
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggress ive.
Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
I don't want a simple life. I want an extraordinary continuous adventure. That's the problem. I just want more. I want it all & everything in-between.
Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.
When dealing with illegal immigration, the answer is simple; enforce Constitutional mandates, and you will protect Floridians and the American people.
Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
The thing that I really want to try and do is just live my life really openly and honestly. I think there's so much power in that, as simple as it is.
I like to give clues - titles - that can give a simple, evocative hook into what picture or feeling welled up in my mind when I came up with the song.
I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development.
I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.
My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.
I use Cetaphil face wash. It's really simple. Nothing super fancy. I just feel like it needs to clean your face and not add or take away from anything.
Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.
Everyone in the dating business wants to know what women want - it's the billion-dollar question. But it's simple: put one in charge, and you find out.
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.
I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.
But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.
I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.
It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled
To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.
I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.
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.
The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'
With the case of running, it really is a case of get out, set yourself a distance, run it, and then do it again the next day. It's tremendously simple.
Once you see the outcomes and the results, and you see how many people are helped and benefitting, you want to keep on doing it because it's so simple.
I have always held the view that decisive force should be used in addressing a military conflict. The reason is simple: Why wouldn't you, if you could?
A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.
The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business.
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.
I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.
Sometimes you have an idea that is so simple that you can't see how it can fail. But in learning, being right is not always the quickest way to success
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.
Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.
The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down again.