Monday, 9 September 2013

Simplicity - Quotes

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting. - Dean Koontz

Cultivate simplicity … or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart, and carries into daylight with it its own modest buds, and genuine, sweet, and clear flowers of expression. - Charles Lamb

Everything seems simpler from a distance. - Gail Tsukiyama

I’ll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don’t have to be able understand very complicated things. It’s just the opposite. You have to be able to see what looks like the most complicated thing in the world and, in a flash, find the underlying simplicity. That’s what you need: a talent for simplicity. - Mitchell Wilson

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town… he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety. - Henry David Thoreau

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. - William of Occam

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. - Douglas Coupland

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious. - George Meredith

Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out – forever. - Joan F. Marques

Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general. - M. C. Escher

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding. - Fanny Kemble

Simplicity is complex. It’s never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking. - Richie Norton

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. - Charles Dudley Warner

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Simplicity is the nature of great souls. - Papa Ramadas

Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being. - Peter Matthiessen

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus. - Ann Voskamp

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement. - William Morris

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don’t expect too much, enjoy what you have. - Dean Koontz

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Doug Horton

The most complicated skill is to be simple. - Dejan Stojanovic

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. - Remy de Gourmont

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