Quotes About Simplicity

Leadership, Jefferson was learning, meant knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts as well as the minds of the larger world.

Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is.

We should be like dogs.

The enemy is noise. The goal is clarity.

Live life as it was meant to be lived. Half asleep, preferably. [...] She preferred [...] to go to sleep at once, sleep now being one of the very few aspects of existence for which she felt any degree of enthusiasm [...]

Joey wished there were some different world he could belong to, some simpler world in which a good life could be had at nobody else's expense.

Dogs again had it right. They didn't trouble themselves with mysteries that could never be solved anyway.

he remembered how it would feel to be unmoved by the stores, unwanting of anything in them, and how much dimmer the lights

Happiness, Buddha once said, is actually quite simple: The secret is to want what you have and not want what you don't have. Simple

Eso es muy superficial. - No se puede ser profundo sin superficie.

I argue against depth wherever I find it.

A simple, elegant game. Like riding a bicycle, once you've learned you can hardly fail to pick it up again, that is unless the brakes are out of order.

All forms of poor communication have one thing in common: They ask the person on the other end of the line to do more work than they should have to.

I wasn't trying to invent better and better homes, but to show her that homes didn't matter, we could live in any home, in any city, in any country, in any century, and be happy, as if the world were just what we lived in.

Once upon a time there was a person whose life was so good there was no story to tell about it.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

I could write more, but that is all that matters.

We were not rich, but there was nothing we wanted. From my bedroom window I watched the world. And I was safe from the world.

I can't live, I've tried and I can't. If that sounds simple, it's simple like a mountain is simple.

Reduce what you have. Decrease what you want.

Beware of those who promise a quick and easy way, for much ease brings many difficulties.

The other project was, a scheme for entirely abolishing all words whatsoever; and this was urged as a great advantage in point of health, as well as brevity.

I should perhaps like others have astonished you with strange improbable tales; but I rather chose to relate plain matter of fact in the simplest manner and style; because my principal design was to inform you, and not to amuse you.

La Naturaleza se satisface con muy poco y que la necesidad es madre de la invención.