Simplicity Quotes · Page 53

“There are many reasons to be simple. It’s simply to learn effectively, to work positively, to communicate actively and to live successfully.”

— Dee Dee Artner

Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me. Today, I choose to give love.

— Louise Hay

Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.

— Edward Tufte

I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.

— Pat Riley

“the simplicity of it filled her with warmth. They had looked for her, and found her; she wasn’t alone, after all.”

— Laini Taylor

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

— Anonymous

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It…

— Richard J. Foster

The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian…

— Richard Stearns

“Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful…

— Dorothy Deming

When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design…

— Genevieve Gorder

The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and…

— Raymond Loewy

Simplicity in preparation is the Italian way. Make easy dishes, and then you can elaborate the final preparation by decorating with vegetables…

— Lidia Bastianich

The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even…

— Paul Hawken

James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are…

— Jon Landau

Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

— Samuel Prout

One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very…

— Anonymous

“1.17 THE WORLDLY WAYS The world, the din, the time, the kin, In our days are a sin, Love’s condemned and not…

— Munindra (Munnan) Misra

The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing…

— Charles Horton Cooley

“When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavement suddenly…

— Jonathan Sacks

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even…

— Benjamin Rush

It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,'…

— Albert Einstein

We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In…

— Deepak Chopra

To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.

— Bruno Munari

“It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become difficult.”

— Richard Brautigan

John Bonham is one of the greatest drummers of all time. Feel, power, simplicity - you name it, John Bonham had it.

— John Dolmayan

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

— Charlie Munger

“The simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love is the invincible fire of transformation for healing the world.”

— Bryant McGill

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

— Dag Hammarskjold

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

— Will Wright

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

— Joseph Conrad

Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

— Duane Elgin

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

— Edward Sapir

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

— Edward Teller

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

— Anonymous

“Consumption isn’t just about taking—it’s also about sharing, repurposing, and honoring the life cycle of the things we use.”

— Ken Breniman

There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity…

— Margaret Wise Brown

“The need to complicate something whose very beauty lay in simplicity and passion.”

— Paulo Coelho