“The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.” — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money. — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
“prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.” — Mary DeTurris Poust Copy Share Image
Moving on is simple and easy; it's forgetting the person you loved that makes it so difficult. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Sometimes the simplicity of just declaring who God is and the greatness of who He is... sometimes you just have to say… — Jeremy Camp Copy Share Image
In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact. — Hal David Copy Share Image
If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may… — Lawrence Bossidy Copy Share Image
I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we… — Biz Stone Copy Share Image
When we apply simplicity to our own lives, when we strip away the unnecessary, the extraneous from ourselves, we become more truly… — Jennifer Kavanagh Copy Share Image
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
“Don't be fooled by the many books on complexity or by the many complex and arcane algorithms you find in this book… — James Nicholas Gray Copy Share Image
Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification,… — Hans Wegner Copy Share Image
“The absolute simplicity. That's what I love. When you're climbing your mind is clear and free from all confusions. You have focus.… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart.… — Takashi Murakami Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge,… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
When the tribal groups of december trade Seated in the figure of crocodile And songs are sung and deals discussed, are made… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Simple is good," he said. "I've lived through complicated. Complicated hurts. Simple sustains you. Complicated makes you hungry for simple.” — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me. — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental. — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
“But there are times in the history of humanity when cleverness might as well be simplicity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ideas will never give you what you want. You want the simplicity of being. The peace that surpasses understanding. The reality of… — Joey Lott Copy Share Image
The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was not the outer granduer of the Roman but the inner simplicity of the Christian that lived through the ages. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Unplugging from digital distractions is an act of radical self-care and rebellion.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
“A captivated heart, a bridled tongue, a limited curiosity, and a slow reentry after prayer are necessary disciplines of simplicity.” — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The composition of these rooms represents the basic intention behind my design: simplicity, essentiality and openness.” — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
