Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Holliwell, Raymond

Wilde, Oscar

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mann, Thomas

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

11.

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 natures first step, and the last of art.

Bailey, Philip James

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

Aristotle

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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

Deupree, Richard

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

Albert Einstein

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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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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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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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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