Simplicity Quotes · Page 43

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

— John Piper

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

— Graham Greene

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

— Edsger Dijkstra

The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in…

— Ellen G. White

I think there's an intricacy in doing something that's meant to look really simple and having it actually be quite complicated.

— Thomas S. Tait

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

— Clement Mok

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

I continue to be drawn to clarity and simplicity. 'Less is more' remains my mantra.

— Stephane Rolland

“Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and…

— Anonymous

A man can be drawn across the room with the simplicity of a smile. That's why your pearly whites should always be…

— Patti Stanger

I have much to learn from my daughter Sofia. Her minimalism exposes my limitations: I'm too instinctive and operatic, I put too…

— Francis Ford Coppola

Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily…

— Duane Elgin

I think the thing that strikes you when you come back to 'The Little Mermaid' after all of these years is the…

— Alan Menken

I think we definitely want to focus on the simplicity aspect because it's something that's built into the culture even here at…

— Biz Stone

Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

I stepped forward ,I change theory in many , I feel freedom to breathe.I do not know how but It happened ,I…

— Laylablack

It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This…

— Raymond Geuss

Some people seem to think that my life dedicated to simplicity and service is austere and joyless, but they do not know…

— Peace Pilgrim

Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That…

— Kathleen Raine

When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different…

— Thomas Young

The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies…

— Edward Gibbon

Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to…

— Kent Beck

“I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“A minimalist does not charge you for what he did. He charges you for what he did not do.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.

— Duane Elgin

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

— Branford Marsalis

My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

— Joan Miro

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.

— William Shakespeare

My take is that the kind of complexity which says we can always generate complexity from simple interactions following for example rules.

— David Byrne

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“The simplicity of living astounds me. But it’s the terror of death that devours me.”

— L.B. Simmons

“There’s been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it.”

— Ryan Lilly

“Act simple in a world of complexity, then people will understand and follow you”

— Willem Brethouwer

Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

— George Sand

I'm a minimalist: For a day look, I like earth tones,and at night I go with kohl and a smudgy black eye.

— Dia Mirza

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

— Abigail Adams

Simplicity is the key for me. I can't write clever songs; I just can't do it.

— Kate Nash