Quotes About Simplicity

I made an airplane out of stone. . . I always did like staying home.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

I cook all my meals at home.

What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by myself. That was how I celebrated getting a record deal.

Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home.

I think I've learned that if you have a house, you end up living in the kitchen, so if you have one big kitchen and then enough bedrooms for your family, that's about all you need for a home.

I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

... And the only way to find that honesty is to not overthink it. For your writing to come alive--to be multi-dimensional--you must barter away some control.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

The badge of honesty is simplicity.

There is nothing I can't live without. I learned this attitude when I was a child.

What is simple is false and what is not is useless.

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you're up to.

All the great things are simple.

Know honor, Yet keep humility. Be the valley of the universe! Being the valley of the universe, Ever true and resourceful, Return to the state of the uncarved block.

I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

My architecture is easy to understand. And enjoy. I hope it also is hard to forget.