Simplicity Quotes

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

William Hazlitt

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Simple style is like white light. It is complex but its complexity is not obvious.

When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement it is a sign that it should be rejected.

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed it's clear proof that it should be rejected.

Luc de Clapiers

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed to be simple is to be great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Affected simplicity is refined imposture.

La Rochefoucauld

The fewer our wants the nearer we resemble the gods.

Socrates

I can always make it a rule to get there first with the most men.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

General George S. Patton

When ideas come I write them when they don't come I don't.

William Faulkner

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

Bernard Malamud

I never thought of myself as a writer but the simplest thing seemed to be to put a piece of paper in the roller and start typing.

Cynthia Friedman

The niftiest turn of phrase the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

Jeff Greenfield

Art it seems to me should simplify.

It's a simple formula do your best and somebody might like it.

Simplicity carried to an extreme becomes elegance.

All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor duty mercy hope.

Winston Churchill

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

The simplest things give me ideas.

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card you don't have a clear idea.

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The art of art the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters is simplicity: nothing is better than simplicity.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said and that only.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

In combat life is short nasty and brutish. The issues of national policy which brought him into war are irrelevant to the combat soldier he is concerned with his literal life chances.

Charles E. Moskos

Players have two things to do: Play and keep their mouths shut.

Sparky Anderson

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

All I had to do was keep turning left.

The rules of soccer are very simple. Basically it's this: If it moves kick it if it doesn't move kick it until it does.

If you don't throw it they can't hit it.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

It's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit it square.

Pete Rose

There are only five things you can do in baseball: run throw catch hit and hit with power.

Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.

The way you get better at playing football is to play football.

I just take my three swings and go sit on the bench. I don't ever want to mess up my swing.

Just learn your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

My advice about acting? Speak clearly don't bump into people and if you must have motivation think of your pay packet on Friday.

Don't let go of the vine.

John Weissmuller

Stay out of jail.

Alfred Hitchcock

Putting aside all the fancy words and academic doubletalk the basic reason for having a military is to do two jobs-to kill people and to destroy the works of man.

Thomas S. Power

The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

There is nothing certain about war except that one side won't win.

Sir Ian Hamilton

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

English Proverb

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism and spends his energies upon that.

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed- it is a process of elimination.

The more we reduce the size of our world the more we shall be its master.

Jacinto Benavente

Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.

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