Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Lao-tzu

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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

Descartes, Rene

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

Confucius

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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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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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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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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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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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

Kempis, Thomas

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God always takes the simplest way.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Deupree, Richard

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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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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Lee, Bruce

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Lee, Bruce

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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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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Kinder, Jack

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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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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead