#simple

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks. ↗

— Don Johnson

#i #just #sea #sharks #simple

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#animal #being #cage #caged #dead

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. ↗

— David Miliband

#battle #battles #bigger #bottom-up #confidence

Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage. ↗

— John Milius

#attribute #be strong #because #courage #executive

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#arithmetic #because #calculus #domain #fractions

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect. ↗

— Edward Teller

#prospect #retrospect #right #simple #will

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. ↗

— Van Morrison

#i do #i write #job #later #maybe

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood. ↗

— Max Muller

#books #happiest #hours #i #light

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard. ↗

— Dave Mustaine

#behind #hard #leaves #moving #simple

It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#black and white #either #productive #see #simple