Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Lee, Bruce

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

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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

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

God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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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 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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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

Albert Einstein

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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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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Confucius

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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 is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Deupree, Richard

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Lao-tzu

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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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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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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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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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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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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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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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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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

Mann, Thomas

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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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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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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Bailey, Philip James

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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 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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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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

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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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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