Simplicity Quotes · Page 38

Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.

— Bill Lear

I want people to enjoy the simplicity in the natural.

— Chris Blackwell

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

— Bertolt Brecht

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

— Edsger Dijkstra

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

— Auguste Rodin

“We see beauty in simplicity because we can see its underlying efficiency.”

— Andrew Thomas

“It’s one thing to have all that you need. It’s another thing to recognize that you have all you need.”

— Toyin Omofoye

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity.

— Emily Post

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an…

— William Hurrell Mallock

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

If you know the difference between good advice and bad advice,You don't need advice..

— Anonymous

“Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.”

— Tim Fargo

Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep…

— William Morris Hunt

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders,…

— Tom Ford

“We are writing in the age of stylish minimalism that in truth has become even more cautious because of word processing. Nowadays,…

— Stephen Kuusisto

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the…

— Anonymous

What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is…

— Donald A. Norman

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver’s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint…

— Lissa Rankin

Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous…

— Richard J. Foster

“In a problem, the great thing is the challenge. A problem can be challenging for many reasons: because the subject matter is…

— Frederick Mosteller

As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St.…

— Bo Sanchez

All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there…

— Clarice Lispector

We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature…

— John Piper

“My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water, shelter, clothing, sex, health…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

— Alexander Pope

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

— Herbert Hoover

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

— George M. Whitesides

Life will become more simple and meaningful when we realize the simple fact that we'll never get the same time and moment…

— Anurag Prakash Ray

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

— Yves Saint Laurent

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

— Henry David Thoreau

What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.

— James Cook

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

— Henri Matisse

“The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas.”

— Oliver Markus

“Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.”

— Phil Dourado

“In business, success is not about doing more—it’s about doing what works, again and again.”

— Joseph C. Kunz Jr