Quotes About Simplicity

We can just hang out and walk and read and talk and stuff.

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

Down with committees Most campaigns are too complicated. They reflect a long list of objectives, and try to reconcile the divergent views of too many executives. By attempting to cover too many things, they achieve nothing. Many commercials and many advertisements look like the minutes of a committee. In my experience, committees can criticize, but they cannot create. 'Search the parks in all your cities You'll find no statues of committees' Agencies

When copywriters argue with me about some esoteric word they want to use, I say to them, 'Get on a bus. Go to Iowa. Stay on a farm for a week and talk to the farmer. Come back to New York by train and talk to your fellow passengers in the day-coach. If you still want to use the word, go ahead.

Most campaigns are too complicated. They reflect a long list of objectives, and try to reconcile the divergent views of too many executives. By attempting to cover too many things, they achieve nothing. Many

Most campaigns are too complicated. They reflect a long list of objectives, and try to reconcile the divergent views of too many executives.

Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.

We sit as a practice for how we will act throughout the day. Mindfulness, however, involves more than sitting. It is moment by moment non-clinging to ego. It is the simplicity that results when we experience reality without the clutter produced by the decorative arts of ego.

The very best of high school still can't compete with the glory of any ordinary summer.

Sometimes reducing a problem to one short sentence can be enough to bring about insight on its own.

To say we'll only have complete satisfaction in God strikes us as too simple, but the simplest answers reveal the profoundest truths. Until we find our peace in Him, we'll continue to feel alone, caught in midlife crisis and forever itching.

But I'm still a bit edgy, so on the way to court, I stop at the Tara Foundation. Petting the dogs, throwing a tennis ball for them to fetch, things like that tend to relax me. The fact that their lives are so simple, their needs and their joys so obvious and uncomplicated, somehow helps clear my mind.

Occam's Razor: The simplest theory is usually the correct one." He

Saving and investing itself is simple if we apply the 80/20 principle. I

The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.

want to cut to the absolute bone.

Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

I grinned. "I'm anybody's for a cuppa and a biscuit.

It's true I'm not very well off But I feel richer than Boris Karloff Because I'm a poet, because I know you And because I know how much I need Which isn't much but it's easy to bluff That you have enough when you have the freedom To know pretty well when enough is enough. —

We don't use these technologies because they are huge, connected, and complex. We use them because they work.

Let the apple ripen on the branch beyond your need to take it down.

Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to life we have refused again and again until now. Until now.

You have a moment in the day, as Blake said, that Satan (the strategic mind, worried about being 'productive') cannot find.