A Quote by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Indian - Philosopher
January 12, 1917 - February 5, 2008

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There is a big misunderstanding about the idea of naturalness. Most people who come to us believing in some freedom or naturalness, but their understanding is what we call [heretical naturalness] ... a kind of "let-alone policy" or sloppiness... For a plant or stone to be natural is no problem. But for us there is some problem, indeed a big problem. To be natural is something we must work on.

Laozi

Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.

Wojciech Kurtyka

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

Edith Wharton

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

W. Somerset Maugham

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

Karl Kraus

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

Albert Einstein

Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.

Olivier Theyskens

Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

Robert D. Kaplan

The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground, with its surroundings ... and there is no trouble. This is what we mean by naturalness.

Shunryu Suzuki

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

Barbara Hepworth

The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience.

Harold Lloyd

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

Dale Carnegie

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

Christian Dior

I've done a lot of translation in TV, and I can do it. I'm trained to do it. I know how to inject a certain amount of my naturalness into that and where I come from into those things, but it helps if somebody's writing with my experience in mind.

Leslie Odom, Jr.

I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

Fernando Pessoa

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