Simplicity Quotes
-
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
-
Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.
Jean-Luc Godard
-
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
John Woolman
-
Seniors are attracted to the simplicity of the storefronts, ... They would rather speak one-on-one with a person.
Thomas Scott "Flip" Phillips Alter Bridge
-
Simplicity is a state of mind.
Charles Wagner
-
A world-changing vision often necessitates a profound simplicity in the user experience.
Joe Gebbia
-
The commonplace about Italian cooking is that it's very simple; in practice, the simplicity needs to be learned, and the best way to learn it is to go to Italy and see it firsthand.
Bill Buford
-
Embrace simplicity…be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.
Chris Prentiss
-
Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to remember that law rules all.
Marcus Aurelius
-
By not tying policy to a small set of forecast indicators, we may sacrifice some degree of simplicity, but we are less likely to be misled when a favored variable behaves in an unusual manner.
Ben Bernanke
-
I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
Clarice Lispector
-
Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.
Sully Erna Godsmack
-
I mean to lead a simple life, to choose a simple shell I can carry easily - like a hermit crab. But I do not. I find that my frame of life does not foster simplicity. My husband and five children must make their way in the world. The life I have chosen as a wife and mother entrains a whole caravan of complications.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
-
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
Constantin Brancusi
-
It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
-
Whatever simplicity I've achieved in writing, I think I owe most of it to Jean Renoir and Hemingway: simple, declarative sentences. I've read some very good writers, but the sentences were so long that I've forgotten what the point was.
Gene Wilder
-
What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.
Auguste Renoir
-
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
Fred Brooks
-
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
Mark Hyman
-
Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.
William of Occam
-
The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated.
Tom Allen
-
Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.
Maurice Saatchi
-
What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple.
Elsa Peretti
-
The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.
Chogyam Trungpa