Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
A cravat is the only item of named after Croatians. Balkan mercenaries were brought to Paris by Louis XIV. Their strange and exotic attire attracted the French bon hommes, who were wearing formal ruffs, and who immediately took to the simple and relaxed military cloth tied at the neck.
People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
A manager’s job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
I live a very simple life. I live away from all the Hollywood hype, and I try to keep it that way.
We’re very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world’s best products and enriching people’s lives.
If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don’t know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it’s a simple premise. If it’s funny, people laugh. If it’s not, they don’t.
The simple reason I like every idea is that I’m an optimist.
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.
Her secret to happiness was simple and unpretentious. She had a beautiful house, would pick fruit and make jams, run the dogs in the fields, have a whiskey at five o’clock and cook a great plate of pasta. It wasn’t complicated.
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
My experience in government is there is a whole host of unintended consequences you have to think through. I can’t un-know that, I find it harder now to offer simple solutions.
Once a date asked me what I do, so I said that my company empowers women in their dating lives. Her response? ‘Aw, that’s so cute!’ Cute is how my babysitter described me when I was 7 years old. Simple fix: Replace cute with hot and he’ll feel like James Bond.
Plot is just not my gift. I’m fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn’t mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. Hell or High Water’s a good example: I don’t tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.
I prefer things nice and simple.
We think we know what it’s all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don’t expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
So I would like my wedding day to be low-key. And maybe I would not wear a wedding dress but something chic and simple, like vintage Chanel.
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there’s a shot from the bumper of a car and it’s going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.
Three simple words – freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
Hersh’s account of the bin Laden raid is a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts, and simple common sense.
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
I’m just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.
Technology has to be invisible. Transparent. Just simple.
I am the sort of a bowler who keeps things simple.
College can seem stressful, but you have just as much fun as you can. Those were good years. You didn’t have to worry about bills or your 401(k). Life was so simple.
I don’t think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
The news business is simple, but it’s not easy to do well.
What’s seemingly a simple thing can actually be the hardest to achieve.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.
I got into the industry after Miss India, but I actively started modeling in 2010. I never even dreamed that a simple girl like me could act, let alone become an actress. Slowly, as I started giving acting a shot, I realised how much I enjoyed it and how happy it makes me.
Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans.
I feel like my style’s always been influenced by ‘less is more.’ The coolest styles are kind of simple and classic, like a white T-shirt and jeans. Maybe you have a cool belt and cool shoes, but everything else you keep simple.
No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.
I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.
There is this tradition, stretching back to Tacitus and Plutarch, that history belongs to the heroes, the emperors. But I grew up among simple people, and their stories just shattered me. It was painful that no one but me was listening to them.
All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?
I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
In Camden, it’s just the atmosphere that gets me. It’s simple. It’s nice. It’s real. And it’s the people, too. I like to interact with them because they are normal and I am normal. People probably don’t expect an Arsenal player to come to Camden Lock and, basically, be a normal guy.
Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He’s not the simple, folksy figure that he’s often portrayed as.
The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.
Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
So many use dad’s name, saying ‘Johnny Cash would not like this’ or ‘Johnny Cash would do this’ or ‘Johnny Cash would vote for… ‘ Please, let his actions speak for who he was: A simple, loving man who never supported hate or bigotry. He was non-political, and a patriot with no public political party affiliation.
Guys are simple… women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Happiness is very simple and minimal.
Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.
The main thing is to work hard. When you work hard, you’ll be in the team. It’s as simple as that. And that’s what I’m going to do, put my head down, work hard, and see where it takes me.
I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
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.
Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
When writing for the page, the focus is on the design – how the words appear on the page. I try to make it as direct and simple as possible.
I’m a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
