Quotes About Simplicity

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, " he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.

The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer's life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well.

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

I'm a simple man. I like pretty dark-haired women and breakfast food.

It is so dam difficult to be simple.

Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.

To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone will do if bees are few.

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary.

There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The secret of happiness is renunciation.