Top 1200 Simple Minds Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary decisions. Cricket cannot be bound by cricketing minds alone.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

Sick minds like to prohibit; healthy minds like to free!

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

My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

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

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

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.

The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be, but their effects are anything but, for they play a critical role in shaping the way our conscious minds experience and respond to the world.

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

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

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

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

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

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

Our conscious minds are rapidly overwhelmed with the few tasks that they attempt to manage. That's why our unconscious minds have evolved to handle so much of our thinking.

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

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.

My goal has not ever been to change minds, my goal is to open minds.

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

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.

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.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life.

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.

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

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

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.

I'm a simple man with very simple tastes and low standards.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

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

In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.

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

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