Simplicity Quotations | Page 3

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

Simplicity makes me happy.

Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.

For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.

True simplicity is elegant.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

Simplicity is complexity resolved

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.

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

Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel. This sounds easy enough, but its very simplicity becomes a danger when your head keeps nodding with weariness and utter boredom and your eyes everlastingly try to shut out the confusing rows of figures in front of you, which will insist on getting jumbled together.

Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe.

Our mantra was simplicity.

Simplicity is a most complex form

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

Seek simplicity, then distrust.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

I love the American musical for the simplicity of emotion that gets expressed.

It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

Always be skeptical about simplicity.

Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters of discussion have become narrowed. People, when they're fearful, are vulnerable to certainty in rhetoric.

I always go for simplicity.

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?

Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Simplicity of approach is always best.

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

Because simplicity isn't the greatest thing in the world, but love.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.

Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.

Part of that, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You've got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn't cluttered with them. That way, you're better able to pick up a few sensible things to do.

It's simplicity itself that its future will be way worse than its past.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

I don't really talk about my personal life and I don't really talk about my relationships. I'm not a big partier. I like the simplicity of my life, and I've chosen the kind of life I really want to live. I don't think my life is boring at all.

The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.

Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.

Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.

Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.

I want people to enjoy the simplicity in the natural.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information. Typography should not vary widely in an interface.

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit...

It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature, may prove the former affections to be nothing but modifications of the latter. All attempts of this kind have hitherto proved fruitless, and seem to have proceeded entirely from that love of simplicity which has been the source of much false reasoning in philosophy.

Anything simple always interests me.

When I was a cook and 24 years old... I read the kinds of books that were the inspiration to understanding the value of simplicity in cooking.

We respect them, they know what they're doing and if we play like we did against the Dragons we'll lose. If we play anything like we know we're capable of we'll win - that's the simplicity of it sometimes.

UNIX is basically simple and powerful Operating System, but you have to be a different human to understand the simplicity

We're focused on the SMB market. Our customers are Fortune 500 companies and down. We don't sell into the data centre. Our focus is on simplicity and ease of use.

We're getting back to the simplicity of why people love the brand. They can really hear the wit and self-deprecation of the brand. It's a step in the right direction.

We are providing choice, simplicity and expanded access to help Americans get the medicines they need,

We believe that the simplicity of the search experience and the search interface will drive toward business intelligence for the masses, and engage 100 percent of users within an organization.

Ultimately, a company needs to decide if it prefers best-of-breed security -- and subsequently pay a slight premium for it -- or if ease of use and simplicity is more important. Integrated and embedded endpoint security will address each of these priorities respectively.

The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity

Everybody desires simplicity but how viable is it to take something complex and force it into being something simple?

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

The simplicity of language, the sparseness of the word on the page, the way a few words stretch my mind across big spaces all this is here.

The simplicity of the interaction is one of the most critical things.

Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no more than the fringe of the garment, and that you need not spend so much anxiety over them, provided that the one most important is faithfully attended to.

The reason the Palm is so successful is the simplicity of using them. They kind of just work.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

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

Some people just like the simplicity of a single ring.

Ross had a great message to say to the group, and I really enjoyed the simplicity of it. As a Memphis native, it's an absolute pleasure to get him involved with our program, and we hope to have a long lasting relationship with him.

That simplicity aspect of single-speed as mountain-bike technology grows and grows ... is drawing people in.

Sake is served best slightly chilled, at 56-58 degrees. When you heat it, you take away the elegance and beauty that generations of families have used to produce it. It's like a really good cognac. It takes years to produce it. There's great romance to it, but more importantly, I love the flavor profile of it. It's complex in its simplicity. When you taste them all lined up, you really begin to understand. You're opening your eyes to a whole new world, and I'm looking forward to doing it in Vail.