Simple Methods Quotes

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.

As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

I am traditional: a big note writer, and I like using the phone.

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

You might be a redneck if the best way to keep things cold is to leave'em in the shade.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

One thing I think is interesting is the Jedi in the prequels are supposed to be peacekeepers, and certainly had a very artful way of making war. They had an artful way of defending themselves and inciting violence, really. You find that the Jedi who survived all of that had a much more simpler way of going about things.

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

The Saxon laws … decided almost all matters of any doubt amongst them by methods which, however inadequate, were extremely simple. They judged every controversy either by the conscience of the parties, or by the country’s opinion of it, or what they judged an appeal to Providence. They were unwilling to submit to the trouble of weighing contradictory testimonies; and they were destitute of those critical rules by which evidence is sifted, the true distinguished from the false, the certain from the uncertain.

We've got to understand what wins and what loses for us. What's our formula? For us, it might not be flashy. It might be boring football, but it works for us.

With small means the Lord accomplishes His marvelous work.