Simplicity Quotes - Page 6

Don't buy much but make sure that what you buy is good.

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.

Most things that are true are simple. To lose weight, eat less than you burn. To reduce stress, find a job you love. To resolve conflict, be patient and peaceful. These are very, very simple in that they are complete concepts that take no more than a sentence to say. They are not, however, easy, because they must be applied consistently.

Vironika Tugaleva

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

Alexandre Dumas

To simplify your life, just think of yourself as a four-year-old child. Try to imagine the way he thinks of reality. If you have to talk to someone about a so-called complicated matter, see how you can simplify it.No matter with whom you are talking, feel that you are a child and that person is also a child. When a childlike quality comes into your life, everything automatically becomes simple.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

G.K. Chesterton

One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle.

Pearl Zhu

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament. Thus we call the Shaker staircase in Pleasant Hill elegant because we know--without ever having constructed one ourselves--that a staircase is a site complexity, and that combinations of treads, risers and banisters rarely approach the sober intelligibility of the Sharkers' work. We deem a modern Swiss house elegant because we not how seamlessly its windows have been joined to their concrete walls, and how neatly the usual clutter of construction has been resolved away. We admire starkly simple works that we intuit would, without immense effort, have appeared very complicated. (p 209)

Alain de Botton

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.

Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.

Tim Fargo

The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.

I don’t bother with rhyme. RarelyAre two trees the same, one beside the other.I think and write like flowers have colorBut with less perfection in my way of expressing myselfBecause I lack the divine simplicityOf wholly being only my exterior.I see and I’m moved,Moved the way water runs when the ground is slopingAnd what I write is as natural as the rising wind...

Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.

Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.

The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.

Donald L. Hicks

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

Lao Tzu

Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.

Rhian J. Martin

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.("Three O'Clock")

Cornell Woolrich

I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary

Dead’s not good, but at least it’s simple.

James S.A. Corey

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

Deborah Harkness

I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.

We are custodians. We are stewards. Our actions are being watched by others around us. Someone is looking up to us as we take each breath. We can be just a grape or we can be the juice that offers simplicity, nourishment and refreshment. Extract and empty your goodness. Pass it into the hearts of the people looking up to you. It will multiply beyond your highest good.

Life was small but good. (15)

Francesca Lia Block

If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is a complex matter thrown into the hands of simple people.

involving into an iterative process of simplifying the 'complexity', and then transforming this 'simplicity into newer complexity' while integrating the unsolved domain for an unprecedented success.

Priyavrat Thareja

The Christian catacombs represent simplicity and earthiness; the cathedrals, transcendence and wonder.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

And... a bed. A bed and a blanket to cover them, a blanket that was theirs together.

Simple works, complex fails.

Timothy Ferriss

A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity.

Even if I be likened to a rat, I do not care, provided that that particular rat be wanted by you, and be of use in the world, and be retained in its position, and receive its reward. But what a rat it is!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The lives of the poor are enriched by the richness of simplicity!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west.The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.

The message of the bicycle: Simplicity is a blessing!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Beauty lies in simplicity.

Innovation is a progress, and progress in simplicity.

Pearl Zhu

Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.

Pearl Zhu

Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.

Pearl Zhu

Progress is discovering what you can do without.

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

But, and here comes the rub, all of us feel that we are in complete control of our desire for things. We would never admit to an ungovernable spirit of covetousness. The problem is that we, like the alcoholic, are unable to recognize the disease once we have been engulfed by it. Only by the help of others are we able to detect the inner spirit that places wealth about God. And we must come to fear the idolatrous state of covetousness because the moment things have priority, radical obedience becomes impossible.

Richard J. Foster

Revolution is simple. It's like a breath; out with the old, and in with the new.

Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity.

Debasish Mridha

Simplicity reveals the pure beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

The Master said, “Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. “If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it.”(Analects 4.5)

Confucius

The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing or modest meals is not even worth conversing with.”(Analects 4.9)

Confucius

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Your purpose is simply what you do each day.

To find true love simply one must just adore.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central heating, instant electronic communication and such, have taught me to relearn and enjoy the basic human satisfactions of dipping water from a cold clear mountain stream; of building a wood fire in a cast-iron stove; of using long winter nights for making music, making things, making love; of writing long letters, in longhand with a fountain pen, to the few people on this earth I truly care about.

that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness lies in simplicityComplexity brings anxiety.

Debasish Mridha

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