Simplicity Quotes - Page 7

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity.

Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life.

All the great things are simple.

The simplest things are often the truest.

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

For Jesus, it is clear, poverty is not the problem; it is the solution. Until human beings learn to live in naked contact and direct simplicity and equality with each other, sharing all resources, there can be no solution to the misery of the human condition and no establishment of God's kingdom. Jesus' radical and paradoxical sense of who could and who could not enter the Kingdom is even more clearly illustrated by his famous praise of children.

The simplest things give me ideas.

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

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter.

Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.

The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.