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  • Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination

    Lying   Simple   Ideas  
  • Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

    Bernard Crick (1962). “In Defence of Politics”
  • I got at a very early age, the idea that the safest way to try and get what you want, is to try and deserve what you want. It’s such a simple idea, it’s the golden rule so to speak. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.

    Simple   Ideas   Trying  
    Commencement speech at the graduation ceremony for the USC Gould School of Law, genius.com. 2007.
  • If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.

    John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.98
  • Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.

    Simple   Ideas   Mind  
    George Berkeley, Desmond M. Clarke (2008). “Berkeley: Philosophical Writings”, p.122, Cambridge University Press
  • The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.

    Real   Simple   Views  
  • A normal life. Such a simple idea, but it's almost impossible for me to picture.

    Simple   Ideas   Normal  
  • The play is a very simple idea really; someone needs some support and consolation, and she finds a place where she gets it.

    Simple   Play   Ideas  
  • You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

    Simple   Ideas   Sound  
    "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.
  • The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restated by rote; but profound ideas must be recreated by will and imagination.

    Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex

    Simple   Ideas   Genius  
  • It was a most rewarding experience! I learned and saw how with a few simple ideas and concepts the same presentation can go from being standard and ordinary to interesting and involving.

  • The simple idea that if you treat people well, the way you would like to be treated, they will do the same.

    Simple   Ideas   People  
  • The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.

    George Sarton (1952). “A History of Science: Ancient science through the Golden Age of Greece”
  • Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of the impact of the positive-thinking movement on every aspect of American life today. Filled with a cast of remarkable characters and many lively tales, One Simple Idea is a readable, responsible examination of the limits and possibilities of mind-power as a source of constructive transformation.

  • In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

    Running   Taken   Simple  
  • another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.

    Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.2, Canongate Books
  • The market being in a trend is the main thing that eventually gets us in a trade. That is a pretty simple idea. Being consistent and making sure you do that all the time is probably more important than the particular characteristics you use to define the trend. Whatever method you use to enter trades, the most critical thing is that if there is a major trend, your approach should assure that you get in that trend.

  • It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it.

    Zero   Lying   Heart  
  • It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

    Simple   Ideas   Together  
    "The New Populism Is A Fight For America’s Values". ourfuture.org. May 22, 2014.
  • Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies... and often dangerous ones. Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself. The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person's situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.

    Lying   Believe   Simple  
  • Some people are aware of another sort of thinking which... leads to those simple ideas that are obvious only after they have been thought of... the term 'lateral thinking' has been coined to describe this orther sort of thinking; 'vertical thinking' is used to denote the conventional logical process.

    Simple   Thinking   Ideas  
    The Use of Lateral Thinking foreword (1967)
  • The reason for our success is no secret. It comes down to one single principle that transcends time and geography, religion and culture. It’s the Golden Rule – the simple idea that if you treat people well, the way you would like to be treated, they will do the same.

    Success   Time   Attitude  
    "CEOs onPeople - In Conversation With Isadore Sharp, Founder and Chairman, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts". Lee Hecht Harrison Interview, onpeople.lhh.com.
  • What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?

    Teacher   Stupid   Mean  
    "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency". Book by Douglas Adams, 1987.
  • Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.

    "Every Piece has a Backstory". Art21 Interview, art21.org. 2008.
  • It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam...Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart.

    Simple   Race   Ideas  
  • The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea.

  • Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

    Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
  • How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.

    Eye   Simple   Doors  
    Herbert Spencer (1871). “Essays: Moral, Political and Aesthetic”, p.11
  • Angry Birds is a very simple idea but its one of those games that I immediately appreciated when I first started playing, before wishing that I had been the one to come up with the idea first.

    Simple   Games   Ideas  
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