“Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy.” — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
“One can't always be magnificent, but simplicity is always a possible alternative.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
“I don't have great mysteries to tell,all I have is a simple path that I try to follow in a dignified manner.” — Kabir Shah Copy Share Image
Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy. — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex. — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a songwriter, simplicity - what not to do, what not to play - can be the hardest thing to achieve. — Nancy Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't really talk about my personal life and I don't really talk about my relationships. I'm not a big partier. I… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal… — Christoph Niemann Copy Share Image
Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh 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
“This is the beautiful secret of minimalism: It may seem like it’s about stuff, but once you’ve cut through the clutter and… — Erica Layne Copy Share Image
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Recursive metafiction worships the narrative consciousness, makes “it” the subject of the text. Minimalism’s even worse, emptier, because it’s a fraud: it… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“In art, in history man fights his fears, he wants to live forever, he is afraid of death, he wants to work… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular stereotypes, seeking simplicity doesn't require that you become a monk, a subsistence forager, or a wild-eyed revolutionary. Nor does… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
