Quotes About Simplicity

On a normal day-to-day basis, I'm makeup free, hair in a bun, and I just go.

For makeup, I prefer to keep it simple for the daytime.

I don't like having debts. I don't like buying anything that I can't buy in cash.

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

I don't have a car and have decided never to own one.

There was a time, about six or seven years ago, when everything was extremely bling and decorative. I was not at peace with that kind of world.

I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.

Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.

I'm not one of those deeper, ethereal writers. I'm just trying to get it done.

I just try to keep my game simple and just get chances. I try to stay on the defender's shoulder, run behind because they don't like it and when I get an opportunity, I shoot. If it goes in one day, it goes in. If it doesn't another day, it doesn't.

I'm not too complicated. I don't think I'm great on the eye. I work hard. I try to outwork defenders, and that's it.

I define myself by efficiency and straightforwardness.

I deleted all the apps. You can actually turn off the App Store. And I gave the passcode to my wife so I didn't have the passcode to reinstall the App Store. And I deleted all social media apps and e-commerce apps.

I don't have a lot of time for things that are deliberately, achingly cool.

When I'm able to eat cheap and delicious food, like ramen and beef bowls, I can't stop but to think, 'Ah, what a great era I was born in.'

Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

The more you can keep your action and your mind and the ball you are delivering as simple as you can nothing can go wrong.

A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.

I think that democracy has a lowest common denominator thing going on, so it might be the best of a bad bunch of political systems; but as a way of making art, actually, its not always that great, because it boils everything down.

I'm kind of a simple guy. The best way you can describe it is, I'm the same person I was when I was a kid. Everyone's like, 'Of course you are,' but I'm like, 'No, seriously.' I liked 'ThunderCats' when I was a kid; I call myself Thundercat now.

I'm interested in the essence of things. If you pare things down, what's left? It's like I'm trying to describe the soul to an alien.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

My design is no design.