#simplest

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#black and white #go #information #lie #never

It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning. ↗

— Paul Cullen

#anything #away #build #eliminating #guts

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. ↗

— Karl Barth

#gratitude #joy #simplest

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#appeal #assembly #business #principle #ranks

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason. ↗

— Hal Borland

#calls #constantly #deals #fact #faith

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#billion #consider #days #dollars #eleven

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2,000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1,000, and sell a thousand of them. ↗

— Jerry Gillies

#cost #dollars #find #just #making

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#discover #emotion #first #human #human mind

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ↗

— Edward Steichen

#good #photographer #simplest

Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#being #capacity #conditions #forms #grades