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

• The cold north wind which bows to earthThe lightness of the willow's birthBends not the mountain cedar trees;Folding their branches from the breeze,They stand as if they could defyThe utmost rage of storm and sky.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Cold
  • Wind
  • Sky

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

  

  Buddha

• Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.

  

  Jens Voigt
  • Age
  • Feeling
  • Endurance

• 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

• Try asking for Nyx's help." "Nyx would not hear me." Kalona spoke so quietly that Shaunee almost didn't hear him. "she has not heard me for eons." "During those eons how many times did you ask for her help?" "Not once," he said "Then how do you know she's not listening to you?

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Trying
  • She
  • Help

• We could simply have used any of a number of reasonably priced handheld devices that train people to slow their breathing and synchronize it with their heart rate, resulting in a state of “cardiac coherence” like the pattern shown in the first illustration above. Today there are a variety of apps that can help improve HRV with the aid of a smartphone. In our clinic we have workstations where patients can train their HRV, and I urge all my patients who, for one reason or another, cannot practice yoga, martial arts, or qigong to train themselves at home. (See Resources for more information.)

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Help
  • Train
  • Variety

• I love simplicity.

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Simplicity

• I miss the simplicity of college, with specific due dates, a consistent schedule, and a solid routine.

  

  Chris Wood
  • College
  • Simplicity

• This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously "creative".

  

  Will Self
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Attitude

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

  

  Bill Jensen
  • Simplicity
  • Hard Work
  • Paradox