Simplicity Quotes
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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
William Wordsworth -
To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain.
William Feather
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Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it in a lot of Modern works, where the concept is more important than the technique, resulting in very poor craftsmanship.
George L. Carlson -
There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who are some of the best players I've ever heard but are playing on their porch tonight because they've never chased success. There's simplicity to how they live and what they care about.
Eric Church -
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.
Fanny Burney -
History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
Jared Diamond -
Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
Jonathan Swift -
Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life.
Caryll Houselander
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Embrace simplicity…be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.
Chris Prentiss -
Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.
William Shakespeare -
I love the simplicity of the Cube because it's a very clear geometrical shape, and I love geometry because it's the study of how the whole universe is structured.
Erno Rubik -
The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.
Marquis de Lafayette -
Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
Elsie de Wolfe -
Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF.
Matt Mullenweg
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Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.
Frederic Chopin -
For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
Riccardo Muti -
I want to show people my appeal through my simplicity rather than being 'I'm good looking; I know how to dress' that kind of way.
Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang -
The noble simplicity of sentiment in McCain’s tweets is a world removed from Trump’s gaudy and boastful displays. And McCain’s demonstration of character and courage is a far more reliable guide to American greatness than the pronouncements of a president who speaks of it nonstop and embodies it not at all.
Bill Kristol -
In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.
Curnonsky
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It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
Walker Percy -
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
Charles Eastman -
Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.
Bill Lear -
There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.
Kathleen Tessaro