The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Yet I know that good is coming to me—that good is always coming; though few have at all times the simplicity and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Flow is not just a fun way to feel more positive and get more done; it’s also a practical tool for working… — Laurie E. Smith Copy Share Image
A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as… — William P. Alford Copy Share Image
Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Essentialists hope that when students leave school, they will possess not only basic skills and an extensive body of knowledge, but also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, An Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'ed to his… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed. — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great… — Lajos Portisch Copy Share Image
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“The key to being a minimalist is making a routine out of just about everything that is not core to your mission.… — Brad Stulberg Copy Share Image
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
