Quotes About Simplicity

We were given the ability to do extraordinary things with nature, occasionally literally against her. And at the same time what is most natural and simple in nature was taken from us.

T?skni si? do rzeczy g?upich. Nawet wtedy gdy jest si? m?drym, wtedy chyba najbardziej…

No ale ?atwiej w grotesk? zamieni? wielkie gesty i wielkie idee ni? ma?? ide? ciep?ej wody w kranie. Na wielkich gestach ?atwiej si? wy?o?y? i prawica mistrzowsko to odgrywa. Jedzie jak na bananowej skórce.

le village de Sfîntu Gheorghe possédait en lui une sorte d'héroïsme résigné. Soumis aux éléments, plein de précarité, condamné à l'oubli, il se blottissait contre la terre ferme, tel un nid d'hirondelles. (p. 227)

I just think it's amazing that a person could lose everything, chasing nothing.

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

If you start to accumulate things, you can't travel, so I lived without. I figured I could live a whole life without anything,

Although Yamashita and Amemiya grow and prepare their own food—both of which definitely take a lot of time—they seem to be suffused in timelessness, in an endless present.

What were the things that really challenged me, made me wake up to my way of thinking that presupposed an industrialized system? In five words. Gentle. Small. Humble. Slow. Simple.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make easier to do don't need to be done.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

If anything has kept me on track all these years, it's being skewered to this principle of central focus. There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination. (emphasis added) As you evaluate your current leadership environment and responsibilities, what do you see that needs to be eliminated? What needs to be delegated? What would it "not be right" for you to continue doing?

Narrow the Focus. By that I mean you shouldn't try to do everything; you should do a few things well.

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

I like boring things.

her friends, feeling the change, soon left off trying to be poor little imitations of grown-up people, and began at last to enjoy themselves; for true enjoyment does not consist in showing off, but in being our simple, natural selves, if people would only believe it.

Ironing's nice and simple,' he said. 'I get all tangled up in words when I'm putting together those interminable papers....

Y comprendió que muchas cosas que había dado por sentadas, muchas cosas que creía sencillas y domésticas, eran en realidad verdaderos lujos.

through every cloud God wants me to unlearn something. He wants me to simplify things, to put other things and other people aside until it is just me and Him. He doesn't want me to do anything more, He wants me to sit at His feet and listen to His voice. When once again He is the Father and I am the child, our relationship is restored.

Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.

Oh it's a pebble... But it's a really nice pebble Dad thanks.

The Shield Bug was happy. It had an enemy. It had a sword. Soon the sword would meet the enemy. Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.

Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.