Simplicity Quotes

• The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Work
  • Reality
  • Function

• The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

  

  Dorothy Leigh Sayers
  • Up
  • Air
  • English

• I feel that, historically, the Art Deco period has the most resonance for me. As a person, it has to be the plucky Clara Bow, the heroine of American silent movies of the 1920s. She embodied feminine dressing mixed with men's style. All this then evolved into the exquisite style and simplicity of Coco Chanel.

  

  Anouska Hempel
  • Men
  • Art
  • She

• Official history has been tampered with in the most extraordinary way, so that we continue to see the world in the child-like simplicity of good and evil, heroes and villains. The world is rarely like that. Therefore the need to create opposing 'sides' and encourage conflict becomes essential.

  

  David Icke
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• Nature loves simplicity and unity.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Nature
  • Simplicity
  • Loves

• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Focus
  • Simplicity
  • Mantras

• There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.

  

  Margaret Wise Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Way
  • Words

• There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right … Or put it another way, 'The future of computer power is pure simplicity.'

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Power
  • Future
  • Simple

• I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.

  

  Anne Burrell
  • People
  • History
  • Culture

• Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Art
  • Words
  • Communication

• Today's complexities demand greater simplicity.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Today
  • Simplicity
  • Demand

• A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory.

  

  William John Macquorn Rankine
  • Expression
  • Theory
  • Hypothetical

• I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

  

  John Nelson Darby
  • Church
  • Simplicity

• Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Writing
  • Simplicity

• Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Simplicity
  • Elegance
  • Keynote

• There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.

  

  Ali Liebegott
  • Live
  • Simplicity

• The thing about simplicity is it's not easy to achieve. To many, simplicity can mean repetitiveness and maybe even a lack of intelligence, those kind of things, but simple yet unique is the key.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Simple
  • Unique
  • Simplicity

• That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a property that affects all of life, but it seems pallid compared to the matter which makes up life. Yet size is an aspect of the living that plays a remarkable, overreaching role that affects life's matter in all its aspects.

  

  John Tyler Bonner
  • Life
  • Up
  • May

• Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Reality
  • Simple
  • Simplicity

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

  

  Chris Wood
  • College
  • Simplicity

• Simplicity is the key of elegance.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Simplicity
  • Key
  • Elegance

• Do you want a list of what my dogs taught me? Patience, perspective, joy, loyalty, the simplicity and presence of their joy. That's a really great daily reminder, bad stuff happens, difficult stuff happens and you take them out onto the beach and you go "OK, now I see". You tell them the current political situation in the world and they go "should we go for a walk?" And you go, right, that's the correct answer.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Dog
  • Perspective
  • Beach

• Simplicity makes me happy.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Happy
  • Simplicity

• The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Simplicity
  • Symbol
  • Cube

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