Simplify Quotes

• Simplify, then add lightness.

  

  Colin Chapman
  • Simplify
  • Lightness

• Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • Truth
  • Problem
  • Hard

• Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Tears
  • Shining
  • Cleverness

• Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Existence
  • Irrational
  • Introduction

• Simplify always - do not complicate.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Simplicity
  • Simplify

• Segmenting your sample is one of the easiest ways to simplify.

  

  Bobby Bragan
  • Ways
  • Sample
  • Simplify

• Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.

  

  William of Occam
  • Should
  • Simplicity
  • Simplify

• Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Art
  • Should
  • Simplicity

• I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.

  

  Michael Gove
  • Thinking
  • Teacher
  • Authority

• One of the main functions of politicians - and journalists - is to simplify the world for us.

  

  Adam Curtis
  • World
  • Functions
  • Simplify

• Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Evolution
  • Contests
  • Antithesis

• If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.

  

  Chip Ingram
  • Life
  • You
  • Show Up

• We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

  

  William James
  • Politics
  • Poverty
  • Ambition

• The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Doe
  • Consumers
  • Clients

• Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Art
  • Spirit
  • Cutting

• Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously.

  

  Allen Lacy
  • Kind
  • Healthy
  • Prejudice

• I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

  

  George Clooney
  • Simplify

• Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Habit

• When I'm with my kids, I definitely try and be in the moment and wait till the end unless the mess poses a real danger, like slipping. But when I am cooking by myself, I definitely clean as I go to simplify.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Kids

• You can't simplify reality without understanding it first.

  

  Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Reality
  • Understanding
  • Simplify

• Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.

  

  Gavin Douglas
  • Remember
  • Dead
  • Simplify

• Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Shapes
  • Historian
  • Select