Bill Jensen Quotes

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

Bill Jensen

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• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Voice
  • Looking
  • Conscience

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Car
  • Car Accident

• I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Pretty
  • Person
  • Feel

• To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Need

• I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Body
  • Honor

• Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • American
  • Study
  • Competition

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Football

• People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Time
  • Past

• When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • House
  • Singing

• The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Me
  • Devil
  • Beast

• Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • Age

• You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

  

  Buddha

• The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Work
  • Career

• It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

  

  John Archibald Wheeler
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Simple

• I've worn my share of dresses and heels in my career. It's easy. It's not very challenging. It's not fulfilling.

  

  Melanie Scrofano
  • Career

• The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Rest
  • Christmas

• There is a lot of work to be done to make sure our leaders reflect the people they are supposed to represent. The more diverse a group of decision makers is, the more informed the decision will be. Until we achieve full representation, we all should understand we are falling short of the ideals of our country.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two.

  

  Paco Underhill
  • Time
  • Real

• When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Time
  • God
  • Strong

• When I think about parallels between myself and an Olympian, I believe that success in the world of business is underpinned by very similar principles of perseverance and hard work.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • World
  • Work
  • Believe

• There is a lot more hard work to do in the future for the well-being of our sisters and brothers, the people of Thailand.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

  

  Bill Jensen
  • Simplicity
  • Hard Work
  • Paradox