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“What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.”
Peter F. Drucker
“My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: "Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus."”
Carl Lewis
“If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.”
Dalai Lama
“Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't make ripples all around you, don't try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.”
Etty Hillesum
“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.”
Emerson M. Pugh
“Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.”
Warren Buffett
“Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”
Walker Evans
“A person can achieve everything by being simple and humble.”
Rig Veda
“The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is.”
Ernest Hello