Simplicity Quotes

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People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. — Douglas Coupland
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. — Henry David Thoreau
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. — Laozi
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. — Laozi
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function… — Raymond Loewy
Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these… — Kevin Roberts
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. — Bruce Lee
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning… — Frederic Chopin
Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity. — Branford Marsalis
One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that... a chief criterion… — Murray Gell-Mann
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the… — Alfred North Whitehead
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality.… — Charles R. Swindoll
It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art.… — Richard Holloway
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation… — Charles Alexander Eastman
The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity. — Robert Breault
I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion… — Henry David Thoreau
Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness… — Vince Lombardi
True refinement seeks simplicity. — Bruce Lee
If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned. — Thomas a Kempis

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