Simplicity Quotes
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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
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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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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
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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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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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Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
William Shakespeare
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A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
Eugene Delacroix
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It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.
Richard Feynman
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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
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It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.
Walker Percy
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The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
Charles Eastman
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In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.
Elliott Sober
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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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Phenomena complex-laws simple....Know what to leave out.
Richard Feynman
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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
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He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.
Saul Bellow
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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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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
William Morris
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The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.
Bill Jensen
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Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.
Albert Einstein
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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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If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.
Wumen Huikai
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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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Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.
Chai Lu