Simplicity Quotes - Page 35

Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.

The simplicity we are looking for is not found in thought. It knows what you have to listen to in every moment and knows it can never make a mistake. It is the infinite working in the infinite. It projects into this world because we are here to do that.

Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Phenomena complex-laws simple....Know what to leave out.

One remarkable feature of the devotional masters is the incredible sense of uniform witness in the midst of such diverse personalities... and the necessity of Christian simplicity is one of their most consistent themes.

Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center

In the beginning was simplicity.

Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. It postulates the difficult to explain, and leaves it at that.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man?

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.

Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!

There is great freedom in simplicity of living, and after I began to feel this, I found harmony in my life between inner and outer well-being. There is a great deal to be said about such harmony, not only for an individual life but also for the life of a society. It's because as a world we have gotten ourselves so far out of harmony, so way off on the material side, that when we discover something like nuclear energy we are still capable of putting it into a bomb and using it to kill people! This is because our inner well-being lags so far behind our outer well-being.

The simplified life is a sanctified life, Much more calm, much less strife. Oh, what wondrous truths are unveiled- Projects succeed which had previously failed. Oh, how beautiful life can be, Beautiful simplicity.

Talking about music and talking about drums brings me back to my beginning and the simplicity, and the excitement about trying to play something and see if it works for your band.

When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity.

I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.