Quotes About Simplicity

I launched my website when many in my fraternity had not even heard of the concept. Then I tried my hand at make-up business which has made life simpler for actors.

I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.

I'm not really a child of this '120 TV channels, a billion websites' era. I tried to live that for a long time but recently realized I don't get anything from it. I told myself it was luxury, but it was really only annoying. I'd rather just watch the same 50 movies over and over.

It's important to still look like yourself on your wedding day, so I didn't do anything drastic.

It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

I don't want a huge wedding. I don't want it to be some huge spectacle.

I want to be a simple bride when I get married. I want a beach wedding where I am running around on the sand in a white dress.

I don't want to have a big wedding. I don't crave that ritual of dress fittings, party planning and all eyes being on you.

Frankly, there is not much demand from home and I don't socialise much - no partying, get-togethers and very rare wedding appearances.

I just want an intimate beach wedding.

I don't want a splashy magazine wedding with celebrities.

I got married and we had a relatively simple wedding and there were not a lot of thrills to it.

For me, the only thing that mattered was getting married in the presence of my family and very close friends. We did not want a big fat wedding.

My poor wife, we stopped on the way back to the suite after our wedding reception so I could pick up a jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread. I mean, I'm not a real exciting guy.

For my wedding, I wanted a minimalist look.

Ashwin and I don't like elaborate weddings, so we had a court marriage.

Some players like to change clubs around the green to hit high or low shots. I play all of my short-game shots with my 54-degree sand wedge and change my ball position to hit it higher or lower. I think it's easier to learn one club than four.

My grandmother was a very simple woman. She didn't want a whole lot. My grandmother wanted to go to church and Sunday school every Sunday. She wanted to be in Bible study every Wednesday. The other days, she wanted to be on a fishing creek.

I write in quite a simple way because that's just the way I write. The vocab I use is quite wee. That's just the way I talk.

As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.

My partner and I weed through our bookshelves and throw stuff out regularly.

The hardest thing, and the most difficult thing, is to do the most simple thing. Because that means that you've had to weed out every other option. I kind of feel like that about a good pop song, too. When it's right, it's perfect, you know?

Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.

I have four Rhode Island Red hens. I get two eggs from them a day. They're feathered dustbins that eat leftover food and weeds, and they're easy to look after - I throw some grain at them in the morning, take the eggs and that's it. I love the sound of clucking.