Quotes About Simplification

Anything to empty life of its incongruities, of its meaningless, messy contingencies, and to impose on it instead the simplification that coheres—and misapprehends everything.

I specialize in generalizations.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.

For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Eliminate agencies that perform redundant functions... Get rid of the Department of Commerce, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy.

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

I'm trying to make the game easier for everyone else.

Creating a complete picture of a company financial health, by looking at periodic financial statements, is like turning a hamburger into a cow

downshifting classic Your Money or Your Life,

Almost everyone has a psychological gap between the way they believe they should act in daily life and how they actually behave. The more materialistic a person is, the wider that gap is likely to be. Knowingly or unknowingly, materialists often feel conflicted over their failure to be better people-they experience a sense of incongruence between their ideal self and their real self. Simplifiers tend to have narrower gaps and greater congruence.

There are entire movements, many of them rooted in the wisdom of the ancients, many stolen, Westernized, and simplified from the East. It's all right, though, social media will reduce them to a pithy pair of lines.

He says the language is dying. He thinks words are being debased. So he tries to speak entirely in weird words and irony, so no one can simplify anything he says.

Or to put it another way: Should "the people" be raised up through education and literacy so that they were full participants in the Revolutionary experiment? Or should music, writing, painting, and drama be simplified to the point where anyone could understand them?

I know just enough about myself to know I cannot settle for one of those simplifications which indignant people seize upon to make understandable a world too complex for their comprehension. Astrology, health food, flag waving, bible thumping, Zen, nudism, nihilism—all of these are grotesque simplifications which small dreary people adopt in the hope of thereby finding The Answer, because the very concept that maybe there is no answer, never has been, never will be, terrifies them.

IS THIS COUNTRY JUST SO HUGE THAT IT NEEDS TO OVERSIMPLIFY EVERYTHING? LOOK AT THE WAR: EITHER WE HAVE A STRATEGY TO 'WIN' IT, WHICH MAKES US-IN THE WORLD'S VIEW-MURDERERS; OR ELSE WE ARE DYING, WITHOUT FIGHTING TO WIN. LOOK AT WHAT WE CALL 'FOREIGN POLICY': OUR 'FOREIGN POLICY' IS A EUPHEMISM FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS, AND OUR PUBLIC RELATIONS GET WORSE AND WORSE. WE'RE BEING DEFEATED AND WE'RE NOT GOOD LOSERS.

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

For every death is for others a simplification of life, it spares them the necessity of showing gratitude, the obligation of paying calls.

politicians had long known, people preferred short, catchy answers to complex ones, even if the short answers were oversimplified to the point of ridiculousness. Phrases

As politicians had long known, people preferred short, catchy answers to complex ones, even if the short answers were oversimplified to the point of ridiculousness. Phrases

We need to reinvent food at Starbucks. Less could be more.