Easy Quotes

• Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Fool
  • Bird
  • Equal

• Michael [Marcus] taught me one thing that was incredibly important... He taught me that you could make a million dollars. He showed me that if you applied yourself, great things could happen. It is very easy to miss the point that you really can do it.

  

  Bruce Kovner
  • Important
  • Easy
  • Missing

• All difficulties are easy when they are known.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knowledge
  • Known
  • Difficulty

• Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Progress
  • Path
  • Difficult

• Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Sometimes
  • Responsible
  • Findings

• The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Fool
  • Honest
  • Scientist

• I actually am a down to earth and easy going girl. Not just another model.

  

  Alyssa Arce
  • Model
  • Easy
  • Going

• Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Forget
  • Forgiveness
  • Revenge

• So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward way is to search for a second form of life on Earth. No planet is more Earth-like than Earth itself, so if the path to life is easy, then life should have started up many times over right here.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Earth
  • Simple
  • Path

• When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy; when they are easy, we take pleasure in them; when they please us, we do them frequently; and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Action
  • Habit
  • Pleasure

• It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Hard
  • Affection
  • Mistress

• I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

  

  William Kent Krueger
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Used

• There're some places that are more difficult or dangerous to navigate and I wouldn't look forward to going back. Like I'd much rather go back to Afghanistan - which fascinates me - quicker than I'd go back to spend a week walking around Nairobi, Kenya, which is a great and easy way to get yourself killed.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Difficult
  • Week
  • Dangerous

• I can work every day of the year. TV is easy. My call's at 8:30 a.m. I'd like to break out of the comedy thing and take a shot at something serious like theater. The off-season allows me to do movies, but I'm not tired of TV yet. There's nothing like it. I've got the best of both worlds.

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• On the whole, the life of a chess professional is not as easy as it appears at first sight. One needs to devote some ten hours a day to chess and to everything connected with it - physical and psycholgical preparation.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Hours
  • Preparation
  • Chess

• Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• England totally disarmed and an easy prey to hostile forces! Can you think of anything more likely to excite cupidity and hostile intention? We should sink to the level of a fifth rate Power, our Colonies would be stripped from us, our commerce would decline, famine and unemployment would stalk the land... I have yet to learn that the cause of peace can be served by rendering our country impotent.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Country
  • History
  • Intention

• Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Culture
  • Unique

• In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Assumption
  • Guilt
  • Innocence

• I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Easy
  • Low Self-esteem
  • Album Covers

• For my wife and I, our first child was really easy to have, but our second one was really hard to have. We had to go to a lot of fertility clinics and do that whole thing.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Clinic

• I thought yoga was easy - I went out and I bought a yoga video tape. I bought the beginners' yoga tape. I couldn't do anything on the whole hour - nothing - just fast forwarding: can't do that, can't do that - I know I can't do that. This woman in a soothing voice: 'Simply take the bottom of your right foot and place it on the small of your back.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Hours
  • Bottom
  • Soothing

• They got a lot of easy baskets and rebounds. That is what killed us.

  

  Rajon Rondo
  • Easy
  • Baskets
  • Rebound

• I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.

  

  Carlos Gracie, Jr.
  • Difficult
  • Fans
  • Foundation

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