Simpler Quotes

331 quotes by 297 authors

The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable. — Robert Greenberg
As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes… — Dan Millman
The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is. — August Wilson
There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not… — Susan Meiselas
Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided… — Daniel J. Boorstin
To fly! to live as airmen live! Like them to ride the skyways from horizon to horizon, across rivers and forests! To free oneself from… — Henri Mignet
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. — Douglas Coupland
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of… — Lewis Mumford
I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex. — Walter Bender
It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies. — Natalie Portman
It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty… — Ellen Page
The Only Things That Were Available To Me Were Either Be A LaborerÂ Or Be A Drug Dealer. So I Became An Armed Robber. It… — Danny Trejo
The future is much simpler than you think. — K. K. Barrett
You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made… — Jennifer Pahlka
Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself,… — Andre Comte-Sponville
Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a… — Pete Townshend
Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to… — B.F. Skinner
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Would it not be simpler If the Government Dissolved the people And elected another? — Bertolt Brecht
Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?… — Jack Heffron

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