Simplicity Quotes
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As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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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
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Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.
Mother Teresa
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Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.
William Hogarth
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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
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway
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Simplicity lies concealed in this chaos, and it is only for us to discover it.
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
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Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.
David Trubridge
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There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.
Kathleen Tessaro
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Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.
Charles Lamb
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The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.
Frederic Chopin
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
William Cowper
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In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
Thomas Eakins
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Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.
William Shakespeare
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The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.
Rudolf Arnheim
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How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.
William Wordsworth
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History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
Jared Diamond
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A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
Jonathan Swift
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I believe that in games, when you're talking about pitting my wits and my brain against your wits and your brain, that simplicity of the game becomes a dominant factor.
Nolan Bushnell
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Simplicity is the base of everything. At the end of the day if you feel good about yourself, you don't need anything. You don't have to depend on the power of a dress to dress you up. You wear dress the dress, it's not the opposite. It's not only a designer, it's not only just fashion, it's a philosophy. It's a lifestyle.
Alessandra Mastronardi