Simplicity Quotes
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Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.
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Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.
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The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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Ordinary psyches often react to bad news with a momentary thrill, seeing the world, for once, in jagged clarity, as if lightning has just struck. But then darkness and dysfunction rush in. A mind such as Beethoven's remains illumined, or sees in the darkness shapes it never saw before, which inspire rather than terrify. This altered shape (raptus, he would say) makes art of the shapes, while holding in counterpoise such dualities as intellect and intuition, the conscious and the unconscious, mental health and mental disorder, the conventional and the unconventional, complexity and simplicity.
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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.
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Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.
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You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.
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I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.
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Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.
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The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.
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There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.
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The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.
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In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.
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Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
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Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.
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Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.
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For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
