Quotes About Simplification

The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.

People like to understand and categorize things in order to understand.

Anyone can popularize science if he oversimplifies.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.

Politics is applesauce.

by removing the 10p band on non-savings income'. Here, what looked like a simplification of the tax system was in fact the abolition of the 10p tax rate that Brown had so proudly introduced when he first became Chancellor. This change meant that someone earning £10,000 a year would lose £223 a year from the abolition of the 10p tax rate and gain just £50 a year from the reduction in income tax from 22p to 20p

The answer is not more hours, it's less bullshit.

I do feel that, generally, people will see me and go, "He knows where the good food is," which is an awesome correlative. It's an awesome simplification.

If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.

The legal profession is notorious for complicating the simples of things.

rearranging your daily patterns to find more time for work isn't the problem. Too much shit to do is the problem.

el fanatismo hay siempre entusiasmo, por eso es tan peligroso y contagioso, todo lo pinta muy simple y eso atrae a las multitudes.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.

Routinize the routine. The things that aren't important to you, whether it's breakfast or your commute, try to do them with the least energy possible so that leaves you with more energy for other things.

While I ridicule books of self-help, I'm also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Los grandes líderes casi siempre son unos grandes simplificadores, que reducen las discusiones, los debates y las dudas a sus elementos esenciales, a fin de ofrecer una solución que todo el mundo pueda entender". COLIN POWELL

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.