#implicit

If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness is always a problem. If people have some story or news to tell somebody else, first of all they are either excited or disappointed. Then they begin to figure out how to tell their news. They develop a plan, which leads them completely away from simply telling it. By the time a person hears the news, it is not news at all, but opinion. It becomes a message of some kind, rather than fresh, straightforward news. Decency is the absence of strategy. It is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior’s approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. That is decency. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#genuine #simplicity #straightforwardness #warrior #beauty

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#simplicity #life

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#extreme #partial #runs #simplicity

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of. ↗

— Ben Folds

#i #i write #inside #lot #proud

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#greatness #simplicity #truth #where

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#embrace #few #manifest #reduce #selfishness

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety. ↗

— Hank Stram

#plus #simplicity #variety

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized. ↗

— Asa Gray

#between #could #differences #distinctively #every

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#candor #christianity #conceded #demands #every

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#complicate #man #progress #simplicity