Simplification Quotes

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Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the… — Mahatma Gandhi
Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives. — Gaston Bachelard
One charming characteristic of many flank attacks I could mention is that they do not very often lead to simplification: if the attack is parried,… — Bent Larsen
We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code. — Richard Neal
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age. Its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a… — Matt Mullenweg
I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity. — C.S. Lewis
We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider — Kay Bojesen
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and… — Henry James
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations. — Aldous Huxley
Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification. — Morton Irving Seiden
It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I… — Richard Neal
If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what about Portugal, what… — George Papandreou
Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these are not simplifications.… — Gerhard Richter
Prison life taught him how little one can get along with, and what extraordinary spiritual freedom and peace such simplification can bring. I remember again,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration… — Frantz Fanon
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires. — Bill McKibben
I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and, giving by… — Vincent Van Gogh
The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature… — Susan Sontag
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion,… — Camille Paglia
If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a… — Alain de Botton

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