Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Deupree, Richard

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Oscar Wilde

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Holliwell, Raymond

The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

Kinder, Jack

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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

Lao-tzu

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Confucius

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

Buffett, Warren

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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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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 complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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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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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

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

Deupree, Richard

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

Bailey, Philip James

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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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