simplicity

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Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.

- Mann, Thomas

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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

- Pound, Ezra

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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

- Gibran, Kahlil

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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

- Jessie Sampter

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

6.

You don't need to outdo the competition. It's expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We need more simplicity and clarity.

- Jason Fried

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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

- Oscar Wilde

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Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

- Seabury, David

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Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

- Paul Rand

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A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.

- Einstein, Albert

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

- Henry David Thoreau

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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Einstein, Albert

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Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

- Kempis, Thomas

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

- Oscar Wilde

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I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

- Moses, Grandma

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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood --for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.

- Greene, Graham

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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

- Aristotle

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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

- Buffett, Warren

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

- Einstein, Albert