Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

Best Quotes about Simplicity

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

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

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Deupree, Richard

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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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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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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God always takes the simplest way.

Einstein, Albert

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

Confucius

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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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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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

Kinder, Jack

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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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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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Lao-tzu

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Mann, Thomas

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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