“Contrary to the indoctrinated notion that reducing existence to the essentials is for half-wits and losers in this golden age of technological… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Looking back at my earlier pictures, I think that the work is very much coming from the same place. I have gone… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Simplicity survives the changes of fashion. Women of chic are wearing now dresses they bought from me in 1936. Fit the century,… — Valentina Copy Share Image
“Minimalism is just the beginning. It’s a tool. Once you’ve gone ahead and minimized, it’s time to find out what those important… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“are vital. The way of the Essentialist involves learning to tell the difference—learning to filter through all those options and selecting only… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works,… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Scientific progress is the discovery of a more and more comprehensive simplicity... The previous successes give us confidence in the future of… — Georges Lemaitre Copy Share Image
Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering… — Laozi Copy Share Image
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
“Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels… — Scott Nicholson Copy Share Image
“There was the presence only of essentials. It was an uncluttered kind of life, a simplicity deliberately constructed so that she could… — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to… — John Nelson Darby Copy Share Image
I want to marry a good person, not his profession. If the person is good, the profession doesn't matter. I hold honesty,… — Jennifer Winget Copy Share Image
The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting… — Feist Copy Share Image
Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
“Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit,… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on… — Clementine Paddleford Copy Share Image
When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really… — Gin Wigmore Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to evolve my sound. I love the simplicity of my setup. I play Gibson guitars and Marshall amps. So… — Lzzy Hale Copy Share Image
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
Whatever simplicity I've achieved in writing, I think I owe most of it to Jean Renoir and Hemingway: simple, declarative sentences. I've… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
