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Simplicity

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

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Churchill, Winston

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bailey, Philip James

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

Oscar Wilde

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Jim Horning

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

Lao-tzu

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kinder, Jack

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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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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Deupree, Richard

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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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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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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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

Mann, Thomas

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Albert Einstein

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The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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

Confucius

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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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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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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

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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 art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug