"The more simple we are, the more complete we become."

-- Auguste Rodin

#Simple Quotes #Simplicity Quotes

“Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.”
“Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.”

Source : Medical Observations 5, Ch. 2
“The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.”
“All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need to be given permanent form.”
“As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.”
“So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest Christianity alone can respond. If the scientific people could rid us of death, they might indeed hope to win over the heart and conscience of the world, permanently, to some form of non-theistic speculation. As it is, the tide ebbs, as I believe, only that it may flow again.”
“Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.”

Source : Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.169, Da Capo Press
“I think, when you're a young composer, you're told constantly that what you're supposed to do is figure out what your voice is. "What is your thing supposed to sound like?" You know: "What's the thing you do," that everyone can recognizably tell from a long distance is you and then you're supposed to be in search of that marker and you're supposed to find it and you're supposed to live there for the rest of your life. And it seemed to me, from a young age, that was what I was encouraged to do. You find a sound and that's your sound! That's what you do.”

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