Quotes About Simplicity

Sweat pants, hair tied, chillin wit no makeup on. That's when you're the prettiest, I hope that you don't take it wrong.

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

We hope to explain the entire universe in a single, simple formula that you can wear on your T-shirt.

I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.

The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.

Cut my pie into four pieces, I don't think I could eat eight.

The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.

Civilization is vastly overrated.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

Some sarcasm is best told simply. Some humor is best told big and some is best told small.

When they were naming the animals, somebody got lazy: anteater? What's it doing? It's eating ants. DONE!

There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it.

Make project plan as simple as possible, but not simpler.