Quotes About Simplicity

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.

I care not a jot for immortal life, but only for the taste of tea.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.

Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!

The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.

Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

Do a few simple things really well, instead of a lot of complicated maneuvers that can go wrong in the heat of battle.

He ate what his men ate. No more.

Arnaut hield meer van de colleges van Heer Roderick: die waren zwart-wit, duidelijk, geen probleem wat goed of slecht was, neem je zwaard en hak erop los.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system