Quotes About Simplicity

But it wasn't boring like this; I loved it, sitting there doing nothing. There wasn't even anything to look at except the houses across the road.

As Augustine pointed out in his Confessions, the basic Christian message is so simple that it can easily be grasped by children, while its theological ramifications are sufficient to challenge the most powerful intellects.

I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don't, you won't be able to understand your own explanation. . . . Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

There is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange, towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.

The glamour Of childish days is upon me

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who divide everything into two groups, and those who don't.

I don't like clever books; I like honest books.

Je t'aime est sans nuances. Il supprime les explications, les aménagements, les degrés, les scrupules.

My greatest skill has been to want little. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN A

D. Rockefeller drew strength by simplifying reality and strongly believed that excessive reflection upon unpleasant but unalterable events only weakened one's resolve in the face of enemies.

Far from trying to parade his wealth, he wanted to blend into the scenery.

With a country boy's love of open spaces, he hated anything confined or cluttered

The Higgs is like a toilet. It hides all the messy details

escape the shackles of our prior experience to uncover profound and beautiful simplifications and predictions

He always found a simple, easy way to reach the correct answer.

Deshaced ese verso, quitadle los caireles de la rima, el metro, la cadencia y hasta la idea misma. Aventad las palabras, y si queda algo todavía, eso será la poesía.

People don't look for complications. You hear hoofbeats, you look for horses, not zebras.

Be on as few pieces of paper as it is possible for a human being to be.

I'm not much to talk about. What you see is what you get.

Where's your luggage?" "I don't use any." "You have no stuff?" "I saw a little book in a store at the airport. Apparently we're supposed to get rid of whatever doesn't bring us joy.

The only thing he had bought for the house was a gold-colored filter cone for Leon's old coffee machine. He figured it was easier than always running to the store to buy the paper kind. Ten past four that morning, he filled it with coffee from a can and added water and set the machine going. Rinsed out a mug at the sink and set it on the counter, ready.

smaller, wirier, boiled down to

Waste not, want not, make do and mend, don't make an exhibition

No reason to look for complications. You hear hoof beats, you look for horses, not zebras.