Quotes About Simplicity

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

All difficulties are easy when they are known.

Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy.

If you know nothing be pleased to know nothing.

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.

Learn to express, not impress.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it. It's like driving a car. It's simple if you know how to do it.

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.

When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].