Simple Quotes - page 22

Why can't you ever answer a simple question? (Wulf) Ask me a simple question and you will get a simple answer. (Acheron) (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
How difficult it is to be simple. View quote
Irving Stone
After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship. View quote
Erle Stanley Gardner
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. View quote
Bernard Beckett
The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick. View quote
Bernie Siegel
A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. View quote
Gordon W. Allport
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur. View quote
Graham Swift
The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision. View quote
Osamu Dazai
The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
[A] skyhook is ... an exception to the principle that all design, and apparent design, is ultimately the result of mindless, motiveless mechanicity. A crane, in contrast, is a subprocess or special feature of a design process that can be demonstrated to permit the local speeding up of the basic, slow process of natural selection, and that can be demonstrated to be itself the predictable (or retroactively explicable) product of the basic process. ... [T]he physicist Steven Weinberg, in Dreams of a Final Theory (1992) ... distinguishes between uncompromising reductionism (a bad thing) and compromising reductionism (which he ringingly endorses). Here is my own version. We must distinguish reductionism, which is in general a good thing, from greedy reductionism, which is not. The difference, in the context of Darwin's theory, is simple: greedy reductionists think that everything can be explained without cranes; good reductionists think that everything can be explained without skyhooks. View quote
Daniel Dennett
Of all the mind tools we acquire in the course of furnishing our brains from the stockpiles of culture, none are more important, of course, than words - first spoken, then written. Words make us more intelligent by making cognition easier, in the same way (many times multiplied) that beacons and landmarks make navigation in the world easier for simple creatures. Navigation in the abstract multidimensional world of ideas is simply impossible without a huge stock of movable, memorable landmarks that can be shared, criticized, recorded, and looked at from different perspectives. (Daniel Dennett)
Up till now [the development of proto-consciousness], we can suppose, nervous systems solved the "Now what do I do?" problem by a relatively simple balancing act between a strictly limited repertoire of actions - if not the famous four F's (fight, flee, feed, or mate), then a modest elaboration of them. View quote
Daniel Dennett
We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth. View quote
Deb Caletti
The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple. View quote
Deb Caletti
Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple. View quote
Deb Caletti
Simple and complicated, as most true things are. View quote
David Levithan
My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone. View quote
Alex Garland
Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies. View quote
Derek Landy
Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged. View quote
J.R. Ward
A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it. (James Surowiecki)
If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them. View quote
James Surowiecki
There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win. View quote
Jane Smiley
I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well. View quote
Jennifer Morrison
How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. View quote
Gerald Jampolsky