Quotes About Simplicity

The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

Ideas will never give you what you want. You want the simplicity of being. The peace that surpasses understanding. The reality of what is.

Ideas will never give you what you want. You want the simplicity of being. The peace that surpasses understanding. The reality of what is.   What you seek is unavoidable. What you seek is what is. Already. This.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

If I have too much luggage, too much property, too many material goods, that makes me worry I have to defend this stuff—then in that case I will not have time left to take care of the things I really love, and then I lose my freedom.

They wanted easy answers to complex fears.

one of my biggest learnings as a designer or technologist is—making something easy to use doesn't mean it's good for humanity.

How do you slow down in a world that is speeding up?

the faster you make them go, the less they will understand. More speed means less comprehension. ...This showed there's just a maximum limit for how quickly humans can absorb information, and trying to bust through that barrier simply busts your brain's ability to understand it instead. The scientists investigating this also discovered that if you make people read quickly, they are much less likely to grapple with complex or challenging material. They start to prefer simplistic statements.

Many of the things we need to do are so obvious they are banal: slow down, do one thing at a time, sleep more. But even though at some level we all know them to be true, we are in fact moving in the opposite direction: toward more speed, more switching, less sleep.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

So much simplicity with so much understanding — so mild, and yet so resolute — a mind so placid, and a life so active.

We must note the curious fact that people are not content with what is simple to understand, but go straight for the more complex problems which they will perhaps never grasp. What is simple to grasp is quite usable and useful, and can keep us occupied for a whole lifetime if it satisfies and stimulates us.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen, denn das Glück ist immer nah.

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.