Simplicity Quotes

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For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the… — Francis Crick
In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact. — Hal David
I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity. — Adam Gopnik
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun. — Elliott Erwitt
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does. — Lawrence Bossidy
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge… — Chris Sacca
I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity… — Charles Darwin
I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B… — Felicity Jones
I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy. — Zhang Ziyi
One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original problem and Darwin's… — David Sloan Wilson
The law of simplicity and naÃ¯vetÃ© applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life. — Joseph Girzone
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed. — Robert Breault
Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman. — Alphonse de Lamartine
Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's… — Rose Kennedy
Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity. — Lester Levenson
The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary… — Ambrose
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world… — Pope John Paul II
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can… — David Shi
If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in… — Mahatma Gandhi

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