Donna Smallin quotes

“Life is as simple or complicated as we make it.”
-- Donna Smallin

#Simple Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Complicated Quotes

“You don't have to stop everything to get organized, you just have to start.”
-- Donna Smallin

Source : Donna Smallin (2006). “Simple Steps to Organizing Everything”, p.280, Rodale

#Organized Quotes

“If you have clutter, you're richer than you think!”
-- Donna Smallin

Source : Donna Smallin (2014). “Clear the Clutter, Find Happiness: One-Minute Tips for Decluttering and Refreshing Your Home and Your Life”, p.65, Storey Publishing

#Thinking Quotes #Clutter Quotes

“It's so easy to get caught up in doing and achieving that we often neglect to make time to be with the people we care about most.”
-- Donna Smallin

#People Quotes #Care Quotes #Making Time Quotes

“It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.”

“A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.”

“Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.”

“In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.”

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”

“Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.”

“The last day of your life is still going to be a day.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

“Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.”

“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”

“I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.”