#implicit

If you are a warrior, decency means that you are not cheating anybody at all. You are not even about to cheat anybody. There is a sense of straightforwardness and simplicity. With setting-sun vision, or vision based on cowardice, straightforwardness is always a problem. If people have some story or news to tell somebody else, first of all they are either excited or disappointed. Then they begin to figure out how to tell their news. They develop a plan, which leads them completely away from simply telling it. By the time a person hears the news, it is not news at all, but opinion. It becomes a message of some kind, rather than fresh, straightforward news. Decency is the absence of strategy. It is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior’s approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. That is decency. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#genuine #simplicity #straightforwardness #warrior #beauty

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#simplicity #life

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy ↗

— Isaac Newton

#philosophy #simplicity #wisdom #nature

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#anything #complicated #discovered #dressing #fussy

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#compassion #greatest #i #just #patience

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of. ↗

— Ben Folds

#i #i write #inside #lot #proud

Simplicity is the glory of expression. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#glory #simplicity

It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized. ↗

— Asa Gray

#between #could #differences #distinctively #every

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. ↗

— George Eliot

#simplicity #life

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#ambition #american #common #effect #faults