SIMPLICITY QUOTES III

quotations about simplicity

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

ANN VOSKAMP

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are


I prefer the honestly simple to the ingeniously wicked.

WILLIAM PENN

attributed, "William Penn and His Philanthropy", The Ladies' Repository, Volume 17

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A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with--that's poverty--but how efficiently we can put first things first.

VICTORIA MORAN

Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty


It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

BRUCE LEE

attributed, Lead Yourself Today


Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.

MASON COOLEY

City Aphorisms

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Simplifiers ensure that simplicity is always a goal, a benchmark and a means to arrive at success, leaving us with an actionable lesson -- if you want to innovate, simplify is the new disrupt.

MARGARET MOLLOY

"Five untold approaches to innovation", The Drum, August 24, 2017


Simple style is like white light. It is complex, but its complexity is not obvious.

ANATOLE FRANCE

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

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Simplicity is the base of everything. At the end of the day if you feel good about yourself, you don't need anything.

NIKKI OGUNNAIKE

"Alessandra Mastronardi, Master of Style", Elle, August 11, 2017


All the works of God are characterized by great and even amazing simplicity.

HUBBARD WINSLOW

Moral Philosophy: Analytical, Synthetical, and Practical


Simplicity does not belong to such and such economic or social phases: rather, it is a spirit, able to vivify and modify lives of very different sorts. Far from being reduced to vainly regretting it, we may, I affirm, make it the object of resolve, the end of practical effort.

CHARLES WAGNER

The Simple Life

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Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Corrino

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Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty.

RICHARD FEYNMAN

The Character of Physical Law

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

KHALIL GIBRAN

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

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The sick man, wasted by fever, consumed with thirst, dreams in his sleep of a fresh stream wherein he bathes, or of a clear fountain from which he drinks in great draughts. So, amid the confused restlessness of modern life, our wearied minds dream of simplicity.

CHARLES WAGNER

The Simple Life


Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.

WARD CUNNINGHAM

"The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work", Artima, January 19, 2004


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

THOMAS MANN

The Magic Mountain

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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity--I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

PLATO

The Republic

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Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

ISAAC BARROW

"Upright Walking Sure Walking", Eighteen Sermons on Various Subjects


Native simplicity has an influence on the mind, that art or knowledge of the world can never boast.

THOMAS INGMETHORPE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Simplicity is sometimes sexier in its naked honesty. But simplicity isn't simple. It demands great ingredients and on-point technique.

MIA STAINSBY

"Oddfish goes for simple and delicious", The Province, August 30, 2017