#simple

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#change #does #escape #every #however

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent. ↗

— Dennis Weaver

#environment #interdependent #premise #simple

Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got fired. It was a simple as that. We do stuff like that on and off. ↗

— Gene Ween

#agency #backed #basically #fired #got

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority. ↗

— Robert Welch

#democracy #governmental #governmental power #majority #power

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. ↗

— Orson Welles

#anything #because #being #cops #did

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#cinema #flight #go #i #king

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#advise #anything #coach #else #just

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#action #blame #cause #created #effect

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid? ↗

— John Archibald Wheeler

#been #behind #century #could #decade

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#mind #obvious #seldom #simple #solutions