I relax by looking at things and reading about things. Even the simplest thing can reveal a great deal about the world… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
So it is a good idea to start simple, I think, and be very careful. There is a spiritual opening in the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
John Gottman is our leading explorer of the inner world of relationships. In The Relationship Cure, he has found gold once again.… — William J Doherty Copy Share Image
If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult… — Emile Coue Copy Share Image
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If we wish to influence our own life in a particular direction, which is constantly threatened by the danger of the emergence… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry,… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not… — George Spencer-Brown Copy Share Image
To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Do you understand how amazing it is to hear that from an adult? Do you know how amazing it is to hear… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The actor's physical type is the main consideration. It isn't and shouldn't be. Does the actor "look the part"? It is the… — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot… — Robert J. Havighurst Copy Share Image
The actor's physical type isn't and shouldn't be the main consideration. Does the actor look the part? It is the simplest question… — Harold Clurman Copy Share Image
It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from… — Paul Cullen Copy Share Image
The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
At the heart of the message of the Savior of the world is a single, glorious, wonderful, still largely untried concept. In… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
A word about 'plain English.' The phrase certainly shouldn't connote drab and dreary language. Actually, plain English is typically quite interesting to… — Bryan A. Garner Copy Share Image
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The simplest idea of someone coming to your home to pamper you at a time when all your energy is being expended… — Karen O Copy Share Image
On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them by disks and then I vary them...… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in… — David Macbeth Moir Copy Share Image
I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet… — Alvin Langdon Coburn Copy Share Image
What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
