Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lee, Bruce

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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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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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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

Lao-tzu

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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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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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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

Deupree, Richard

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Mann, Thomas

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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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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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Bailey, Philip James

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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