Quotes About Simplicity

After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.

The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time.

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

Don't try to live too many days at a time.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

Our clothing, our food, our household furnishings - all could be much simpler than they now are and at the same time be better looking

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

Simple Plan's trademark is pretty easy. By the time the song ends, you can sing it. It doesn't take 20 listens. It's hard to write those songs but we try our best.

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.

A few fat files are better than a lot of thin ones.

Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.

I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

A Simple lifestyle of reduced consumption allows more time for interaction with living, dynamic beings, more opportunity for meeting the Other more fully and unencumbered.

This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.