Top 100 Be Simple Quotes
#2. understood then, but these past years, seeing Bridger's powers, I let myself fall into the delusion that Providence might be simple.
Ada Palmer
#3. You can't say you want things to be simple and then in the next breath ask me to be honest.
Margaret Mahy
#4. Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.
Nora Roberts
#5. Parla Come Mangi'
It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat
Elizabeth Gilbert
#6. Even the most complicated and the most profound message can be given in a simplest way! Be like a light beam entering into a dark sanctuary: Be clear, be pure, and be simple!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!
C. G. Jung
#9. For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter.
Jack Welch
#10. The conscious mind is small and weak compared to the emotional and spiritual power that we call daimonic. It may be the urge to create, take risks, and love. Life may be simple when you avoid the daimon of love, but it is also less passionate and meaningful.
Thomas Moore
#11. I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.
Joseph Goebbels
#13. The only way to find happiness is to be simple and love every moment and every thing.
Debasish Mridha
#14. What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple.
Elsa Peretti
#15. Let us be loving, be kind, be simple, be silly, be happy.
Debasish Mridha
#16. 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.
Billy Graham
#17. I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
Kaki King
#18. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
Al Smith
#19. Love is simple, if you allow it to be simple. Julian to Hannah, Take A Chance
Alison Wong
#20. I want to be simple. I think that we try - and we think when we grow up - that we have the truth, because we experience and stuff. But that bullsh*t actually.
Stromae
#21. You don't have to speak monosyllables to be simple. What we mean by simple is finding the core of the idea.
Chip Heath
#22. To be simple is to be great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thom S. Rainer
#23. It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
Jake Barton
#24. The only life worth living was the unfree life ... the life in which you were chained to your one true wish, the wish to be simple and perfect.
Chad Harbach
#25. I think there's something in common with the OSS 117 movies. The big difference is there's no irony in this one. It's not parody. I tried to make it very simple. It's a simple story, but to be simple, it's very complex in the way it's done.
Michel Hazanavicius
#26. Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.
Emma Lazarus
#27. It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#28. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.
C.S. Lewis
#29. In this complex modern world, it is impossible to be simple.
Debasish Mridha
#30. I strongly believe that success is directly proprotional to one's ability to be simple and comfortable. In fact, simplicity and comfort have a multiplication effect, thus increasing the chances of expedited and sustained success.
Vishwas Chavan
#31. Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.
James D. Watson
#32. I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.
Mary E. Pearson
#33. Be simple and kind with a loving heart. These attributes make you more beautiful and attractive than any make up.
Debasish Mridha
#35. Be simple, don't carry the baggage the past, open your hands, and let it go.
Debasish Mridha
#36. W.S Merwin says "after three days of rain" and I write "After Twelve Days of Rain." I like his quietude. I admire his ability to be simple without being simplistic.
Dorianne Laux
#37. Plans must be simple and flexible ... They must be made by the people who execute them.
George S. Patton
#38. John Calvin said he constantly studied to be simple.
Bryan Chapell
#40. Just believe; believe in yourself; believe in your ability. Things will be possible; things will be simple; things will be a reality.
Debasish Mridha
#41. Thanks, for saving me."
"I didn't have a choice," he said softly.
"Everyone has a choice."
"Then mine was easy."
"Easy?"
He chuckled. "Olivia, my choice will always be simple when it comes to you...
Jettie Necole
#42. Learning to be complex is easy, but learning to be simple is most difficult.
Debasish Mridha
#43. I just wanted friends. I just wanted people to like me. I just wanted for things to be simple and good. So, for five years I actively sought out mediocrity.
Evangeline Lilly
#44. When in doubt, be simple. Your life purpose should be an easy target to conceive sometimes all it takes is a simple act of courage to get you there.
Omar Al-Attas
#45. If you want to give a message to the world, let it be simple, as simple as the life of a shepherd!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. There is only one thing to be done," went on the old lady, "be simple and quiet. Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is easy, so easy.
Robert Hugh Benson
#47. There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.
Sinead O'Connor
#48. I've always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can't love be simple? Why can't it just be as pure as two people who realize that they can't live as well, or as happily, apart as they can together?
Bella Andre
#49. I much prefer it when things are straightforward. They don't have to be simple or easy, but they do have to be fair.
Cameron Dokey
#50. All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity
Martin E. Marty
#51. How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
Nate Mendel
#52. If you are simple, people may ridicule you. Be simple anyway.
Debasish Mridha
#53. I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.
Jewel
#54. Stress often comes from speed. So slow down, be simple, enjoy the profound beauty of the little flowers.
Debasish Mridha
#56. It's easy to be complicated but very difficult to be simple.
Debasish Mridha
#57. My body is very shaped, and I like to be simple. I don't like to use so many colors. My best colors are black, white and blue.
Monica Bellucci
#58. Most people don't like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.
Catherynne M Valente
#59. It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath
It will be short, it will not be simple
Adrienne Rich
#60. Anybody that thought the genome was going to directly provide drugs was a fool. Biological networks are not simple, and making drugs to affect them won't be simple.
Leroy Hood
#61. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Winston S. Churchill
#62. Tiny emerged on deck some hours later, shaken but smiling. He said that what he had been considering love had turned out to be simple flatulence. He said he wished all his romantic problems could be solved as easily.
John Steinbeck
#63. To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#64. A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not simple. How are we going to be simple with the simplicity of Jesus? By receiving His Spirit, recognising and relying on Him, obeying Him as He brings the word of God, and life will become amazingly simple.
Oswald Chambers
#66. A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
Edward Sapir
#67. Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.
Amy Chua
#68. Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.
George S. Clason
#69. Oh I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up
It could still be simple.
Taylor Swift
#70. Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
Alan Kay
#71. Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
Edward De Bono
#72. To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.
Lydia Davis
#73. I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.
Michelle Williams
#74. - It is clear that we have to come down a bit from the high horse of reason on which we enjoy sitting. We have to be simple and take time to think how to make things understandable to the little ones. We have to become children again, and some find that too hard.
Johann Christoph Blumhardt
#75. I'm going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I'm going to make sure to take some time off and be simple and ride my bike and hang out with friends.
Jill Scott
#76. Life is not meant to be easy. But it can be simple.
Tony Curl
#77. Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.
Edward Dahlberg
#78. The secret of staying young is to be simple and happy like a child.
Debasish Mridha
#79. It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin
#80. The more technology becomes complicated inside, the more it has to be simple outside.
Derrick De Kerckhove
#81. To be simple means to make a choice about what's important, and let go of all the rest. When we are able to do this, our vision expands, our heads clear, and we can better see the details of our lives in all their incredible wonder and beauty.
John Daido Loori
#82. Be simple. Be direct. Be clear. Don't worry about being correct. Worry about being real.
Jill Telford
#83. Be brave. Be kind. Be simple. Above all, be crazy with love.
Debasish Mridha
#85. There will Be a Moment when Your eyes meet, and everything in the world will be simple again.
Michael Edwards
#86. When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.
Kevin Spacey
#87. Now listen, guuuyyysss! Come on guys. Let's all, come on, let's be simple about this.
Robert Pattinson
#88. The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy ... it becomes simple, fair and easy.
John Spence
#89. Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.
Tanya Tucker
#90. I learned a lot about lead; you don't have to blow your cookies in the first bar. It is much harder to be simple that to be complicated during solos.
Tommy Bolin
#91. Whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.
Rebecca West
#92. Life can be simple, it ain't easy. So don't take the easy option. Challenge the resistance, challenge yourself, become great
Tony Curl
#93. Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.
Randall Terry
#94. For me, whether it's in a book or on T.V., a recipe has to be simple. I have a short attention span, so to open a cookbook and see a recipe that goes on for three to four pages, well, I've lost interest.
Al Roker
#96. Love it's not supposed to be complicated. It must be easy. It should not need begging and imploring. Love must be simple, because it's just the beginning of a long journey.
Kambiz Shabankareh
#97. The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles:
Show up or choose to be present,
Pay attention to what has heart and meaning,
Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and
Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.
Angeles Arrien
#99. I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make ordinary people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think.
Antony Armstrong-Jones
#100. Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
