Quotes About Simplicity

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

que as crianças mais precisam não é de roupa de grife, grandes presentes, Internet, mas de alegria, simplicidade, brincadeiras ao ar livre e do carinho e dedicação dos pais. Os pais que dão o mundo para elas, mas não dão a si mesmos e não as ensinam a pensar, geram crianças frágeis, dependentes e despreparadas para enfrentar os desafios dos labirintos.

Ser feliz é contemplar a assinatura do Autor da Existência nas coisas simples e anônimas. É se deslumbrar com a chuva e com o sol. É recomeçar tudo de novo quando necessário.

Los secretos de la felicidad se ocultan en las cosas simples y anónimas.

The greatest truths are the simplest.

You are alive! True magic involves the reduction of properties to simplicity – making them transmutable so that they can be utilized in fresh directions, bearing fruit many times. Know deliberation, self-consciousness and concentration to be antithetical to magic, and sycophancy to be a way of making stupid.

After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

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

To save time is to lengthen life.

Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.

So many frustrating family dynamics and workplace dramas erupt because of the misplaced belief that manipulation motivation is the key to changing behavior. But now you know that simplicity is what reliably changes behavior.

many cases, you'll find your lack of doing a behavior is not a motivation issue at all. You can solve for the behavior by finding a good prompt or by making the behavior easier to do.

The easier a behavior is to do, the more likely the behavior will become habit.

Make the behavior so tiny that you don't need much motivation.

When you are designing a new habit, you are really designing for consistency. And for that result, you'll find that simplicity is the key. Or as I like to teach my students: Simplicity changes behavior.

When something is tiny, it's easy to do—which means you don't need to rely on the unreliable nature of motivation.

Simplicity changes behavior.

The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.

A man of business hates elaborate trifling. "If you do not believe your own senses," he will say, "there is no use in my talking to you." As to the multiplicity of arguments and the complexity of questions, he feels them little. He has a plain, simple, as he would say, practical way of looking at the matter; and you will never make him comprehend any other.

Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.

It's very rare that I put makeup on.

I don't wear perfume, and I rarely wear jewelry.

I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.

I rarely use product in my hair, and when I do I have no idea which ones, nor does it matter all that much to me. And I can't remember the last time I even used a comb, much less carried one around.