Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

- Destouches, Philippe Nericault

Best Quotes about Simplicity

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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

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

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Lee, Bruce

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 whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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

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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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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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 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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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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

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

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Descartes, Rene

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Deupree, Richard

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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

Confucius

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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Johnson, Samuel