Quotes About Simplicity

Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished

Possessions can be, and most often are, a distraction from the real work of a knight's life. A lion doesn't own anything at all, yet we all know his power.

Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't make ripples all around you, don't try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.

I don't want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.

FIRE CHIEF: Life is very simple, really. [To the Smiths:] Go on and kiss each other.

Lumea are nevoie s? te cuprind?, pentru totdeauna, într-o definiÅ£ie simpl?, scurt? ÅŸi definitiv?, asupra c?reia niciodat? s? nu revin?. Iar insul este obligat s? se conformeze propriei sale definiÅ£iuni. Uneori îi place. Alteori se sufoc?.

Annihilating all that's madeTo a green thought in a green shade.

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

There's a clarity that arrives when life forces you into a binary situation.

Don't overthink it. Just write.

Things got better and better between them as the weeks passed by. There was never any 'Is it on or is it off?' It wasn't as complicated because they got on so well. That was the nice thing about it, a straightforward love story.

I didn't know about jealousy or depressions or anything like that. I had such a wonderful existence being a kindergarten teacher – you didn't suffer from anything like that, you got tired but that was it.

If an English writer cannot say what he has to say in English, and in simple English, depend upon it, it is probably not worth saying

can think of no better way to make the decision-making process straightforward than to apply before the fact the structure imposed by our six questions.

She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That's what I need. No phone book, no Game Boy, no pasta maker, TV Guide. Nowhere to go, nothing to do.

Don't give [the audience] four; give them two plus two.

We see beauty in simplicity because we can see its underlying efficiency.

As Albert Einstein said: "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

As the great physicist John Wheeler said: "To my mind there must be, at the bottom of it all, not an equation, but an utterly simple idea. And to me that idea, when we finally discover it, will be so compelling, so inevitable, that we will say to one another: 'Oh, how beautiful. How could it have been otherwise?

you would expect that at the ultimate base of Nature, we will surely find a principle which is simple, beautiful, and elegant. As the great physicist John Wheeler said: "To my mind there must be, at the bottom of it all, not an equation, but an utterly simple idea. And to me that idea, when we finally discover it, will be so compelling, so inevitable, that we will say to one another: 'Oh, how beautiful. How could it have been otherwise?

In politics there is nothing simpler than simply talking, and nothing more complicated than simply acting.

She was warm and smelt like a wet sparrow.