Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Deupree, Richard

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

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

Oscar Wilde

The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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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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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Lee, Bruce

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Albert Einstein

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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

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

Bailey, Philip James

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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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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

Deupree, Richard

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

Mann, Thomas

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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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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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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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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kinder, Jack

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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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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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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston