Simplicity Quotes - Page 40

To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.

Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.

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

The future of computer power is pure simplicity.

Our mantra was simplicity.

Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

The Daoist appeal to simplicity can be very appealing to the many of us who feel that contemporary life is overwhelming. "Less is more" can be a call to identify what it is we really need and appreciate doing for its own sake, as opposed to what we have been socialized into wanting, often to our detriment, or becoming consumed by activity that we would never do for its own sake but only for the sake of something else.

But there's something about the simplicity of Auschwitz... there's just nothing. There's just photographs, there's a room full of limbs, a room full of hair, and then you go into the place where the gas chambers were. You walk down these halls and the efficiency of it is so inhuman. The place is so powerful, just for its utter bald, bare simplicity.

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.

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

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

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

I want people to enjoy the simplicity in the natural.

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

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.

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

Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.

I think having simplicity doesn't always mean that you make a good movie. I have a theory that a movie that's easy to make is hard to watch.