Quotes About Simplicity

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

In the primitive simplicity of their minds they are more easily victimized by a large than by a small lie, since they sometimes tell petty lies themselves but would be ashamed to tell big ones.

Never explain anything. "The more you have to explain," Whitaker said, "the more difficult it is to win support." Say the same thing over and over again. "We assume we have to get a voter's attention seven times to make a sale," Whitaker said. Subtlety is your enemy. "Words that lean on the mind are no good," according to Baxter.

Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.

Caring about someone isn't complicated. It isn't easy. But it isn't complicated, either. Kinda like lifting the engine block out of a car.

If we can state our mission and purpose simply and concisely, we can create the vision we want. If we get too complicated, too convoluted, we cloud the vision.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.

Consider the flowers, they don't try to look right They just open their petals and turn to the light

Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure.

Sometimes in matters of the heart words are not required. Are ill advised, in fact.

Isn't it evident we need more God and fewer gimmicks?

What has become of standing unashamed for the gospel of Christ? No one is smarter than God. When he says to do his work in his way, we can be assured that he will produce his results for his glory. We don't need to get "creative" on him. God knows exactly what we need to do and expects us to trust and obey him in childlike simplicity.

I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.… It is enough that I am surrounded by beauty." Ruess scaled remote canyons,

that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

Simple is good.

Lisa Henson about her father) He admired the job of the man who walks along the road picking up trash with a long stick. He thought that guy had a great job, walking along with a stick, enjoying the road, and doing only good in the world, with hundreds of small actions.

If you want to be fast and agile, keep things simple. Speed isn't the result of simplicity, but simplicity enables speed.

Large portions of the productivity gains from agile methods come not from doing things better, but from not doing them at all.

The formula for success is simple: deliver today, adapt tomorrow.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

I had no idea that throwing away worthless things could bring about such contentment and . . . well . . . joy. Maybe that's true in life too. Get rid of the worthless things that tied you down and held you back.

Things look different from the seat of a bike carrying a sleeping bag with a cold beer tucked inside.