Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

- Buckle, George Earle

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

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

Confucius

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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 is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Kinder, Jack

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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

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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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Lee, Bruce

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

Lee, Bruce

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Albert Einstein

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

Aristotle

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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 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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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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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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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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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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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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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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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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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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

Mann, Thomas

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