Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Buffett, Warren

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

Morris, William

The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.

Stuberg, Robert

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Ruskin, John

The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Lee, Bruce

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Lao-tzu

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Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.

Alford

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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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Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine.

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In our systems work through simplicity, consistency, and repetition.

Kinder, Jack

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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Johnson, Samuel

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I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Bennett, Tony

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Holliwell, Raymond

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The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.

Lee, Bruce

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A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

Cooper, James F.

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.

Albert Einstein

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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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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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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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Collier, Robert

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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Descartes, Rene

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I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.

Deupree, Richard

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Einstein, Albert

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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

James, Henry

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I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Mann, Thomas

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Bailey, Philip James

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There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

Hoare, C.A.R.

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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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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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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von