Quotes About Simplicity

I have always revered not crude verbosity but holy simplicity.

I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Don't tell me about the seasons in the East, don't talk to me about eternal California summer. It's enough to have a few days naked among three hundred kinds of rain.

I was glad I'd remembered to shucksify my vocabulary in the company of children.

Some people put more effort and money into the wedding day than they do into the marriage itself, then it's all downhill from there. I was happy for a simple start; things could only get better.

I started to suspect that the real reason we can't agree on a formula for elite team leadership is that we've overcomplicated things. We've been so busy scanning the horizon for transformational knights in shining armor that we've ignored the likelier truth: there are hundreds upon thousands of potentially transformative leaders right in our midst. We just lack the ability to recognize them.

The chief virtue of Bloom's Taxonomy was its simplicity: six categories, not sixty.

No matter where you are, keep your life simple - that is all I am saying. Remember, a rich man is not the one who has the most, but one who desires the least.

Simpler theories may be more convenient to work with, but they are not intrinsically more probable than complex ones.

To restore silence is the role of objects.

A mans style in any art should be like his dress it should attract as little attention as possible.

Painters should remember that the eye, as a general rule, is a good, simple, credulous organ very ready to take things on trust if it be told them with any confidence of assertion.

No boy can resist being fed well by a good-natured and still handsome woman. Boys are very like nice dogs in this respect — give them a bone and they will like you at once.

Don't accustom yourself to use big words for little matters

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times ... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don't think foolishly.

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

En waarom zou je geen appel van de boom mogen plukken en opeten om het simpele plezier van de smaak en niet omdat je van plan bent de beste appeltaart te bakken die iemand ooit heeft gemaakt?

A pobreza é um bem que encerra todos os bens do mundo. É uma grande soberania; confirmo que se assenhoreia de todos os bens quem nenhum caso faz de os deixar.

Talentless and incompetent as I am, there are two things I can do, and two things only: walk, with my own two feet; compose, composing my poems.