Quotes About Simplicity

Poems and epitaphs are but stuff, Here lies Bob Barras and that's enough.

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Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

Choosers are human, so designers should make life as easy as possible.

If you want to encourage people to do something, Make It Easy.

1. If you want to encourage someone to do something, make it easy.

Humans have limited time and brainpower. As a result, they use simple rules of thumb—heuristics—to help them make judgments.

Lao Tse told them to relax and learn from the life of a plant. It doesn't have to be told how to do its thing. It follows its nature.

A good friend of mine is a cup of tea indeed.

Wyn we called her from the start, see. Nothing else to be done with a girl like that. Brown eyes she had, big, with eyelashes that touched her brows, and a smile in her voice, and looking to Davy as to a brother of God.

and old Indian saying: 'It's better to know one mountain than to climb many.

I wish I were a boy again-unquestioning, with no need to analyze the moment.

But it's so hard to make things simple and so easy to make them complicated.

Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty grievances, the disparate values of society. It was simple, devoid of artifice and ulcer-burning pressures.

Non c'è da stupirsi che i bambini sono felici. Per loro la vita è facile. Un po' di fame un po', un po' di freddo, un po' di paura del buio. Tutto qui. Perché affannarsi tanto a crescere? La vita diventa troppo complicata.

There was a time, and we can easily see it in the five or six centuries that run roughly from the time of Socrates to the time of Epictetus, when the idea of education was very simple, and the supposed consequences of education, tremendous. With us, it is the other way around.

Some men might make a complicated business of going after a burglar. It was simple and easy, the way I handled it. I crept quietly downstairs and into the dark living-room, and parried a blackjack with my head.

And then the finale, its four modest notes. Do, re, fa, mi: half a jumbled scale. Too simple to be called invented. But the thing spills out into the world like one of those African antelopes that fall from the womb, still wet with afterbirth but already running.

The postdoc turns into an adjunct position. She makes almost nothing, but life requires little. Her budget is blessedly free of those two core expenses, entertainment and status.

Easy Tree IDs.

If only people, like some invertebrates, would just turn raging purple when they felt attraction. It would make the entire species so much less neurotic.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.