Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

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

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Simplicity

See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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

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

Kinder, Jack

I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.

Gibbs, Willard

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Bailey, Philip James

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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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

Aristotle

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

Deupree, Richard

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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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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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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 complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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

Confucius

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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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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

Morris, William

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

Descartes, Rene

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

Oscar Wilde

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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.