Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

- Buckle, George Earle

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Lee, Bruce

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.

Clapiers, Luc De

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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

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

Oscar Wilde

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

Wilde, Oscar

The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

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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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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Churchill, Winston

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Lao-tzu

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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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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Kinder, Jack

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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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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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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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

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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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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To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Lee, Bruce

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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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