Simple Details Quotes

#1. If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.

Yogi Berra

#2. We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.

Diane Keaton

#3. On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

Katherine Paterson

#4. I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#5. A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.

Hermann Weyl

#6. People do tend to avoid new realities; they'd rather just add details to the old ones. It's as simple as that.

Andy Warhol

#7. 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

#8. It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

Melissa Bank

#9. Feel your own precious body and life. Let yourself see the way you have hurt or harmed yourself. Picture them, remember them. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this and sense that you can release these burdens. Extend forgiveness for each of them, one by one.

Jack Kornfield

#10. I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. I never knew anybody ... who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.

Stephen Harper

#13. In other words, a person develops the ability to see how the details make up the big picture and how a large, complex concept can be broken down into simple step-by-step processes. A

Logan Donovan

#14. My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

Niklaus Wirth

#15. ALWAYS PRACTICE the Art of Peace in a vibrant and joyful manner.

Morihei Ueshiba

#16. Those who are troubled by our existing programs are not interested in a repeat of 9/11, and those who defend these programs are not dismissive of civil liberties. The challenge is getting the details right, and that's not simple.

Barack Obama

#17. Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

Robert Moog

#18. If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.

Satyajit Ray

#19. There's only one of him, she thought, and he's right here.
He knows I'll like a song before I've heard it. He laughs before I even get to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes me want to let him open doors for me.
There's only one of him.

Rainbow Rowell

#20. Things always appear clear and simple from behind glass. It is in the thick of tribulations that blurring details arise, complicating my life. You can't rightly judge me, nor can you assist, from a shielded viewpoint.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.

Bobby Seale

#22. To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams