Simplicity Quotes - Page 9

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.

If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.

See it big, and keep it simple.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does it by slow, gradual degree. At no point are you postulating the sudden coming into existence of a complicated being.

Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

Simplicity is the key to what I do.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

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

It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.

I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.

See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul.

The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.

The art of art... is simplicity.

It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.

It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.