Simplicity Quotes
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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 complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.
Steven Weinberg
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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.
William Morris Hunt
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The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.
Richard Feynman
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Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.
George Eliot
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Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.
Bill Jensen
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I relish simplicity as an all-comprehensive value.
Ela Bhatt
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Back to basics Rock & Roll capturing the beauty and simplicity of punk
Gary Crowley
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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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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.
Terence McKenna
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You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.
Richard Feynman
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I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!
Joseph Monninger
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In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.
Elliott Sober
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For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
Christopher Ricks
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I'm just going to let people watch whatever little movie they think our lives are and go for it.
Kristen Stewart
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When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of the place of my nativity, and to vindicate the rhetoric of this ancient forum of our Metropolis from the aspersions of the illiterate by composing A Treatise of the Alercation of the Ancients; wherein I have demonstrated that the purity, sincerity, and simplicity of their diction is nowhere so well preserved as amongst my neighbourhood.
John Arbuthnot
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I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.
Norman Hartnell
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
Ezra Pound
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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.
Noah Lukeman
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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.
William Hazlitt
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Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is.
Tom Shadyac
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In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
Albert Camus