Simplicity Quotes · Page 52

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

— Steve Jobs

“Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.”

— Christy Hall

A world-changing vision often necessitates a profound simplicity in the user experience.

— Joe Gebbia

Simplicity is that grace which frees the soul from all unnecessary reflections upon itself.

— Francois Fenelon

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.

— Maurice Saatchi

If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do…

— Melvin Konner

“At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.”

— Patrick White

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

— Jim Rohn

What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page,…

— Milton Friedman

“...learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the…

— Dale Carnegie

What appeals to me about 'Blind Willie' is just how sparse that music is. Just this idea - the grain of it,…

— David Longstreth

We have a system in the hands of bureaucracy. Everything is difficult. Everything is complicated. And my idea is simply give simplicity…

— Matteo Renzi

“The point of simple living, for me has got to be: A soft place to land A wide margin of error Room…

— Leo Babauta

I read Gide's 'The Immoralist' over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It's written with such simplicity and…

— Lawrence Osborne

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and…

— Paulo Coelho

No, the Scriptures were not given to us to confuse us but rather to instruct us. Certainly God intends that we should…

— M. R. DeHaan

“They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand…

— Gillian Flynn

Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even…

— Frederic Bastiat

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one…

— Alain de Botton

The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view…

— Okakura Kakuzo

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula…

— Joanna Scott

To get large groups of people to dance, there needs to be something accessible about the music. The beat can't be too…

— Dan Deacon

It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This…

— Raymond Geuss

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”

— Bruce Lee

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books.

— Juan Gabriel

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

— Antonio Gaudi

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had a very different vibe then, I was very into minimalism. I was kind of obsessed with Helmut Lang and [Martin]…

— Roopal Patel

“Simply by experiencing the new environment, you master its complexities' Może dlatego tak trudno powrócić na Ziemię z krajów anglosaskich”

— Scientific American R. Douglas Fields

In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

— Justus von Liebig

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

— Thomas a Kempis

“When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

— Honore de Balzac

One of the simplest ways to stay happy is to just let go of the things that makes you sad.

— Nishan Panwar

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

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

— Gautama Buddha

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

— Henri Poincare