#simple

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#i #important #itself #like #made

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#assassinations #dispositions #friendly #give #ill

Although Darwin was able to persuade much of the world that a modern eye could be produced gradually from a much simpler structure, he did not even attempt to explain how the simple light sensitive spot that was his starting point actually worked. ↗

— Michael Behe

#actually #although #attempt #could #darwin

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#brothers #cardinals #dear #elected #great

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#concept #considered #explain #idea #implement

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#because #complex #differ #even #greater

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#character #constructs #more #quieter #relegated

I'll say life is simpler. ↗

— Jayson Williams

#life #say #simpler

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#simple #such #thing

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple. ↗