Top 1200 Simple Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Basically, country is my kind of music - the simple melody, the simple lyrics.

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.

I remain a simple man who has more questions than answers. Please join me as I seek to turn that tide.

Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up.

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement of the whole. Don't have more than one movement in a figure; you can't patch parts together. Simple lines; then simple values. Establish the fact of the whole. Is it square, oblong, cube, or what is it?

I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.

I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

I'm a simple girl. I just like the simple things in life.

It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so it is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God -not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Other men have said, "If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire." This Christ of Galilee says, "My death shall do it." Other martyrs have died in simple fidelity to truth. This martyr dies that He may make His truth mighty over all hearts. He was a man; but was He only a man?

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

I still dream about doing something simple, very simple and universal.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to be simple.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

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.

The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound lyrics.

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

I am a simple girl from a simple background, and I think fans have appreciated my authenticity. What you see is definitely what you get with me.

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.

It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

Love is so simple. [Fr., C'est tellement simple, l'amour.]

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

Sometimes I like to be more simple - simple colours, to be completely empty.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently

Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.

I am a simple person; I come from a very simple home. We believe in enjoying life and what we have.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't

Masonry was not made to divide men, but to unite them, leaving each man free to think his own thoughts and fashion his own system of ultimate truth. All its emphasis rests upon two extremely simple and profound principles, love of God and love of man.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

Let me tell you something: I'm a simple person who lives a simple life.

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.