Simply You Quotes:

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

- George Leonard

source: George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

topic: Moving, Practice, Simply You

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Simply You, Enough, Knows

I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

- Margaret Atwood

source: "Margaret Atwood: why Wattpad works" by Margaret Atwood, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2012.

topic: Talking, Simply You, People, Scolded

We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, “You’re not the one.” We are quite sure you will kill us or yourself or both—or even worse, cry and yell at us.

- Greg Behrendt

source: Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2007). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

topic: Men, Cities, Simply You, City Bus

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

- Robert Henri

source: Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

topic: Simply You, People, Too Much

I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply. "You truly want me?" "More than anything. I'm only half without you." "Then you are my woman." His words were finality, a bond he would not permit broken. She had given herself to his keeping. He would never let her go. "And you'll never leave me?" she pressed. "I'll stay with you for all of ever, lass." Jane's eyes flared, and she looked at him strangely. "And then yet another day?" she asked breathlessly. "Oh, aye.

- Karen Marie Moning

source: Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Into the Dreaming (with bonus material)”, p.87, Delacorte Press

topic: Lonely, Eye, Simply You, Never Leave Me, Let Her Go

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Success, Teaching, Data, Inspiring Design, Student Motivation

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Teacher, Inspiring Design, Speaking Well

[Richard Feynman] truly believed that if you couldn't explain something simply, you didn't understand it.

- Leonard Susskind

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Richard Feynman, Simply You

How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of recording and not let it move in any other direction? Very simply: you insult me, you hurt me, by word, gesture, by an actual act; that leaves a mark on the brain which is memory. That memory is knowledge, that knowledge is going to interfere in my meeting you next time obviously.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

source: "A Wholly Different Way of Living". Book by Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1970.

topic: Hurt, Memories, Moving, You Hurt Me, Simply You

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

- Henry C. Link

topic: Relationship, Men, Enemy, Simply You

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

- Dale Archer

source: "Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell", www.cnn.com. July 24, 2009.

topic: Children, Divorce, Thinking, Simply You

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

- Evangeline Lilly

topic: Jobs, Believe, People, Simply You, Wonderful Things

In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first thing and the last thing! You try it. . . For no reason! Because there is no reason. Simply, you are again there, still alive - it is a miracle!

- Rajneesh

topic: Morning, Laughter, Night, Monasteries, Simply You

I think of my life as a series of moments and I've found that the great moments often don't have too much to them. They're not huge, complicated events; they're just magical wee moments when somebody says 'I love you' or 'You're a really good at what you do' or simply 'You're a good person'.

- Billy Connolly

topic: Love You, Thinking, Events, Simply You