Nigel Pearson

The way football has evolved in some of the bigger leagues in the world, you'd have to say there has become a bigger distance between the contact that you have, for everybody really. It's quite refreshing actually to experience something as simplistic as enjoying winning a game, and the players and the fans being together.

English Coach

Gary Larson

A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

American Cartoonist

Xavier Dolan

I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.

Canadian Actor

Thom Mayne

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.

American Architect

Tony Scott

My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world.

British Director

Dean Ornish

There is often a simplistic view that HDL is good, so that anything that raises HDL is good for you, and anything that lowers it is bad for you. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

American Educator

Niki Caro

The problem for me, with most movies for children, is that the filmmakers make the mistake of making it too simplistic. Where a child's world can be very complex, emotionally.

New Zealander Director

Jo Brand

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

British Comedian

John Ortberg

What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well.

American Clergyman

Robert Harris

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

British Novelist

Use 'simplistic' to criticize views or solutions that are too general and ignore complexities.

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'Simplistic' often implies that something is overly simple and may suggest a lack of intelligence or insight.

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Using 'simplistic' indicates that you believe something requires a more sophisticated understanding.

Critical Tone

 now we consider that there may be a kind of continuum that exists between the two. We'll just take one example a virus is a natural system, right? But it's very simple. It's very simplistic. It doesn't really satisfy all the requirements, it doesn't have all the characteristics of living systems and is in fact a parasite

Martin Hanczyc: The line...

 And simplistic about it, but that's pretty much it poison kill plan They were talking about bringing some a Murad's group in from ier C to help document the site process You know some samples, but because it's getting late in the evening. We'll we'll do that environmental survey stuff more tomorrow

Illegal Marijuana Farms...

 as the dark universe, made of dark matter and dark energy. How do we know this? Well, we know because we look at things and we see them. That might seem rather simplistic, but it's actually quite profound. All the stuff that's made of atoms is visible. Light bounces off it, and we can see it.

Dark matter: The matter...

 and we step into being. We become this inner scientist where we're eagerly awaiting that next data point. Now, this might sound too simplistic to affect behavior. But in one study, we found that mindfulness training was twice as good as gold standard therapy at helping people quit smoking.

A simple way to break a...

 that it was plants, rather than animals, that made people healthy, they encouraged us, via their overly simplistic food pyramid, to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, along with more carbs. What they didn't tell us is that some carbs are better than others,

What's wrong with what...

 the more I found actually that the reality is the opposite. Business does not profit from causing social problems, actually not in any fundamental sense. That's a very simplistic view. The deeper we get into these issues, the more we start to understand

Michael Porter: Why...

 The shadows, the textures, the three-dimensionality, the high points of light. How did it all become so two dimensional, so simplistic and devoid of character? Well, it turns out, I'm not the only one who's alarmed

The Case for Radically...

 And we really have this incredibly simplistic view of why people work, and what the labor market looks like. At the same time, if you think about it, there's all kinds of strange behaviors in the world around us.

What makes us feel good...

 and the quality of your life. Moreover, I think, it can transform society. Because if enough people do it, we can change society's definition of success away from the moronically simplistic notion

How to make work-life...

 characterized by achievement and by challenge this nation has tossed its cap over the wall of space we have no choice but to follow it sounds kind of simplistic but nobody really looked me