Easy Things Quotes (page 5)

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• help
• kindness
• serious

In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people. Panayiotis Zavos

• hard
• things
• figure

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy. Steven Soderbergh

• love
• fall
• great

It's very easy to fall in love when things are great, but the way to really fall in love is when things aren't great. Nicole Kidman

• lemon
• time
• hot

There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of lemon and hot water couple of spoons of honey, you can gargle with port, I've done it a couple of times myself - but don't swallow it! Cliff Richard

• motivational
• simple
• view

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. Russell Banks

• freedom
• caring
• bored

And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted. Richard Attenborough

• simplicity
• challenge
• real

Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge. Robert James Waller

• travel
• busy
• him

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Benjamin Franklin

• moon
• hard
• choose

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. John F. Kennedy

• unique
• different
• differently

For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing. Lady Gaga

• end
• pretty
• attention

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. Henry David Thoreau

• easiness
• anymore
• thing

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore. Haruki Murakami

• world
• believe
• good

The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world. Alice Munro

• easiness
• matter
• things that matter

There's never an easy route to the things that matter. Charles de Lint

• night
• easiness
• nights

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. Ernest Hemingway