Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does. — Bill Jensen Copy Share Image
“So much simplicity with so much understanding — so mild, and yet so resolute — a mind so placid, and a life so active.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The art of being happy lies in the ability to extract happiness from common things — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things. — Thich Thien-An Copy Share Image
I feel like we want women to be simpler, less complex, so we project a lot of versions of simplicity onto them… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
Give me simplicity, that I may live, So live and like, that I may know Thy ways, Know them and practise them:… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and… — Syncletica of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
It is GREAT for a person to live life of his own; GREATER if he could also be out of his comfort… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
Simplicity of living means meeting life face to face. It means confronting life clearly, without unnecessary distractions. It means being direct and… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
A pure heart is perhaps one which has no natural propulsion towards anything in any manner whatsoever. When in its extreme simplicity… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“If you hold to Nature, to the simplicity that is in her, to the small detail that scarcely one man sees, which… — Ranier Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The… — Marshall Field Copy Share Image
“You can never stay angry too long in the bush though. At least, that's what I think. It's not that it's soothing… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Barley porridge, or a crust of barley bread, and water do not make a very cheerful diet, but nothing gives one keener… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“we seek what we think are simple explanations for events in our lives because we believe the simpler something is, the more… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If it is true that it is the simplicity of the Einsteinian formulae which constitutes their difficulty, that they are so obvious… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation. — Mark Sheppard Copy Share Image
Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and… — Harrison Birtwistle Copy Share Image
There is a beauty and clarity that comes from simplicity that we sometimes do not appreciate in our thirst for intricate solutions. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery. — Ihara Saikaku Copy Share Image
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Gold is the gift of vanity and common pride, but flowers are the gift of love and friendship. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Only a few reporters...discerned that Anderson really combined Carter's ineptness with Reagan's simplicities. — Edwin Diamond Copy Share Image
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
“Don’t look at the person who has it all. Look to the person who doesn’t need it all.” — Toyin Omofoye Copy Share Image
“We should always be in pursuit of simplicity, in whatever form it takes.” — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
