Simplicity Quotes
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Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.
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The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
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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.
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
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What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
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Simplicity survives the changes of fashion. Women of chic are wearing now dresses they bought from me in 1936. Fit the century, forget the year.
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Members of the generation that came of age after World War II-Korean War who join in a relaxation of social and sexual tensions, and who espouse anti-regimentation, mystic-disaffiliation, and material-simplicity values, supposedly as a result of cold-war disillusionment. Coined by Jack Kerouac.
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Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
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I like the simplicity of soloing. You've got no gear, no partner. You never climb better than when you free-solo.
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Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.
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If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements.
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We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.
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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.
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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover)
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I miss the simplicity of college, with specific due dates, a consistent schedule, and a solid routine.
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We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
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We give great value for our franchisees: They can build a store for well under $200,000. And we have extremely simple operating systems. The preparation is mostly done in front of the customer. That simplicity is really what attracts our Subway franchise. You see it, and you can do it.
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True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
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Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.
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Lispers are among the best grads of the Sweep-It-Under-Someone-Else's-Carpet School of Simulated Simplicity. [Was that sufficiently incendiary?]
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How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.
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Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
