Simplicity Quotes - Page 19

simplicity is the best sophistication

To all players I can recommend the following: simplicity and economy. These are the characteristics of the opening systems of many great masters... A solid opening repertoire fosters self-confidence.

How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.

Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

All of the searching, all of the struggling, all of the efforting to find your true self is naturally revealed in open, relaxed simplicity.

To be simple is not always as easy as it seems.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

What can I say about my jewelry? It speaks for itself. To me, style is to be simple.

Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live.

As you let go of the complications, emotional toxins, and everything else that isn't serving you, you will be free to experience the happiness that exists in simplicity.

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.

Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am.

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity .... and the greater part of the English are the very refuse of society.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.