Simplicity Quotes
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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
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The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and just as easy to repair. ...It also sells best and looks good.
Raymond Loewy
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Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.
Bill Lear
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
Seneca the Younger
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Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
William Zinsser
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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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Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.
Meshell Ndegeocello
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What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.
Beryl Markham
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Phenomena complex-laws simple....Know what to leave out.
Richard Feynman
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Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am.
Cory Arcangel
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In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.
John Tukey
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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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If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.
Wumen Huikai
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I feel like we want women to be simpler, less complex, so we project a lot of versions of simplicity onto them to fit that.
Sarah Polley
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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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To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.
Bill Vaughan
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Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration.
Ernest Bevin
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Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
William Shakespeare
