Robert J. Ringer Quotes

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

The question was which spell did I make? Which did I have time to make? The answer was eerily simple. I had time to make all of them.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

It is not at all simple to understand the simple.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.

Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking.

If it takes more than a sentence to explain what you are doing, it's almost always a sign that what you are doing is too complicated.

Books do not make life easier or more simple, but harder and more interesting.

You have to use your judgment. In cases like that, we say, 'let's be simple minded. We know this is a feature that's good for customers. Let's do it.

I think the idea that in a riddle there are two answers or two doors and that you have to pick the right one is almost sort of delightful to kids who are making so many choices every day and who often don't know for a while if they've made the right one. It's not as if you make a choice and then *ding* you have some sense of "oh, this is perfect and I'm happy" - it's never that simple.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind