Quotes with simple-minded

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  • Byron Dorgan The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Warren Buffett The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yet absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Colin Wilson The complex develops out of the simple.
    Colin Wilson
    British writer (1931 - 2013)
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  • Alice Munro The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Nolan Bushnell The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bob Riley The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • George Eliot The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bill Gates The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Babe Didrikson Zaharias The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.
    Babe Didrikson Zaharias
    American athlete (1911 - 1956)
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  • William Lyon Phelps The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • Barbara Cartland The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Bill Hybels The idea that God doesn't care about his children is rooted in a lie, plain and simple.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Meister Eckhart The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Euripides The language of truth is simple.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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