Simplicity Quotes
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As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.
Dave Davies The Kinks -
Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs
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I have never in my life met a man like him for noble simplicity, and boundless truthfulness. I understood from the way he talked that anyone who chose could deceive him, and that he would forgive anyone afterwards who had deceived him, and that was why I grew to love him.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.
John Maeda -
People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
Brendon Burchard -
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 -
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
Douglas Horton -
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
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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 -
A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.
R. S. Thomas -
Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]
Larry Wall -
The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.
Tove Lo -
Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!
Jim Elliot -
By this means all knowledge degenerates into probability; and this probability is greater or less, according to our experience of the veracity or deceitfulness of our understanding, and according to the simplicity or intricacy of the question.
David Hume
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Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.
Ambrose of Optina -
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 -
When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.
Anne Lamott -
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child.
Alexander Pope -
A world-changing vision often necessitates a profound simplicity in the user experience.
Joe Gebbia -
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.
Chogyam Trungpa -
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
Peace Pilgrim -
Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.
William of Occam -
The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
Alan Hovhaness