Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Mann, Thomas

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

See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Lao-tzu

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Confucius

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

Albert Einstein

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Oscar Wilde

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

Wang, An

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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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The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in --telephonic, technological and relational --to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

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

Aristotle

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