Top 52 Simple Is Not Easy Quotes
#1. Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.
Carrie Newcomer
#2. It is easy to comprehend people who are weaker than ourselves, but it is not as simple to be ready for the true feelings of those more powerful.
Norman Mailer
#3. It is not easy to speak of people and land in simple terms beginnings with a beginning and ending with an end.
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
#4. Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.
Mother Teresa
#5. When we hear jokes against women, and we are asked why we don't laugh at them, the answer is easy, simple, and short. Of course we're not laughing ... Nobody laughs at the sight of their own blood.
Naomi Weisstein
#6. Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.
Ernest Hemingway,
#7. When we play the game like we're supposed to play it, it is pretty easy. Making the extra pass, making the simple play, it's not about between your legs, behind your back, and all of that, it's just about scoring the bucket.
Karl Malone
#8. We are to learn our duty from the Lord, and then we are to act in all diligence, never being lazy or slothful. The pattern is simple but not easy to follow. We are so easily distracted.
Henry B. Eyring
#9. The news business is simple but it's not easy to do well. You know the story, you have to cover it, you need pictures, you need good writers, you have to get it to the screen but it's obviously not easy to do well.
Jai Courtney
#10. Saying you want to escape is the easy part; actually figuring out how to do it is not quite so simple.
Kerry Wilkinson
#11. Just say "I'm sorry." It's not a tongue twister. It does not need repeating multiple times. The phrase is simple and short, easy to articulate. And the last time I checked, it sounded just as good - if not better - in a whisper. So just say it; say "I'm sorry.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#12. Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have strong self-confidence combined with deep humility.
Henri Nouwen
#14. The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity.
Thomas Merton
#15. One thing I can assure you, life is not easy, but it can be simple. Focus on what's important and don't let your distractions derail you.
Tony Curl
#16. A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.
Sheryl Crow
#17. Perhaps there is a simple answer
not an easy answer
but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.
Ronald Reagan
#19. The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy.
Julie Powell
#20. 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
#21. Helping your weapon reach your target is easy. Watching someone accept that their life is over before it ever became something is not quite as simple.
Emm Cole
#23. How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it's not easy.
William C. Brown
#24. Life is not meant to be easy. But it can be simple.
Tony Curl
#25. Islam is simple, but being a Muslim in a modern world is not. Everyday is a battle that each of us have to face. It is easy to get swept away and lose one's identity. The constant struggle is to find out who we are and how to remain steadfast.
Norhafsah Hamid
#26. Our calling in life really is this simple (although not therefore easy): We are to devote ourselves to working/building and keeping/protecting everything placed into our charge.
Richard D. Phillips
#27. Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#28. I cheated when I gifted Tier. And this makes me smile, because it was so easy and simple. And it was something my father never understood.
Love is earned, not mandated.
So I loved Tier back.
Fiercely.
J.A. Huss
#30. You would be surprised at the healing power of a simple "I love you" from a dying parent to a child or vice versa. This is not always easy, of course, yet a lifetime of mistakes can be undone through forgiveness even at the end of a life.
Alberto Villoldo
#31. Doing what's right is always simple. Not easy, perhaps, but simple.
Helen C. Johannes
#33. What it takes to win is simple, it's not easy.
Marv Levy
#34. Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.
Langhorne Slim
#35. Recovery is not only fun, it is simple. It is not always easy, but it is simple. It is based on a premise many of us have forgotten or never learned: Each person is responsible for him- or herself. It involves learning one new behavior that we will devote ourselves to: taking care of ourselves.
Melody Beattie
#36. Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.
Rachel Ward
#37. Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.
Dan Millman
#38. That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters.
Mark Twain
#39. Heuristics are simplified rules of thumb that make things simple and easy to implement. But their main advantage is that the user knows that they are not perfect, just expedient, and is therefore less fooled by their powers. They become dangerous when we forget that.
Anonymous
#41. Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.
Robin Sharma
#42. Simple, easy actions can protect the health of our water resources and help save drinking water supplies. There is not one individual who cannot help to make a difference to the health of the environment
Ian Kiernan
#43. Change your focus. Refocus on the desired results Once you acknowledge how easy it is to attract factors in your life that you do not want and accept how effective and simple the law is, you can start using it to your advantage.
Malti Bhojwani
#44. Success is simple, but isn't easy because it demands execution, not intentions.
Orrin Woodward
#45. The choice to give up bitterness is not easy, but it is simple: peace or poison. And don't wait until you feel like making it. You never will.
Brent Weeks
#46. In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity.
Debasish Mridha
#47. For two years, all you have to do is go where they tell you, stay behind your rifle, and kill and not be killed. It's simple, but simple isn't the same as easy.
John Scalzi
#48. Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.
Timothy Keller
#49. Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.
Jules Verne
#50. Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#51. Everything you want to accomplish in life is fairly simple to obtain; it's just not easy.
Paul Morrisey
#52. If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.
David Elkind
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