Simplest – Quotes

If we need simple

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems? Ethan Zuckerman

My stories are very

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way. Etgar Keret

In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization can be replaced by another requirement, in which mention of whole numbers no longer occurs. Instead the integers occur in the same natural way as the integers specifying the number … Read more

Many Southern writers must

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest incident can make a story. Erskine Caldwell

Scientists must use the

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses. Ernst Mach

The simplest schoolboy is

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. Ernest Renan

My aim is to

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. Ernest Hemingway

There are some things

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he … Read more

There were a number

There were a number of definitions of courage, but now I was seeing it in its simplest form: you do what has to be done day after day, and you never quit. Eric Greitens

If you persuade yourself

If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be. If, on the contrary, you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable … Read more