#implicit

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#excessive #offset #our #return #simplicity

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#ask #bear #derives #expectation #fact

I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season. ↗

— Anne Burrell

#cook #cuisine #culture #did #fresh

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#book #contract #first #forth #get

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#creation #effectively #god #implicitly #involved

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle. ↗

— Edward Witten

#before #century #describing #developed #elegant

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness. ↗

— Felix Adler

#should #simplicity

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#emotion #emptiness #love #simplicity #death

Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#simplicity #life

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#art #despite #entering #into #objective