Quotes About Simplicity

When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.

There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.

The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.

It's fun just spending time with everyone. It's something that's so simple, yet so valuable to me

Only make up what you have to. Otherwise, tell as much truth as you can. That means you have fewer lies to keep track of, and you're not as likely to trip yourself up.

It is too simple to pet a stray dog then watch it run under a car and say it wasn't mine It is too simple to admire a rose then pick it and forget to put water in the vase It is too simple to use a person for loving without love then leave him standing alone and say I don't know him anymore It is too simple to know one's flaws then live them at great cost to others and say that's just the way I am It is too simple the way we sometimes live our lives for after all life simply is a serious matter

Call off the search for a "why", Rachel,' she finished on. 'You don't need it.

The cottages are full of life. It's incredible to think they are filled with people who know nothing of computerised technology, nor even running water, sewage systems or electricity. And yet here they live. Surviving.

Childishness is when we're so preoccupied with things that ultimately don't matter, that we lose our essential connection with things that do.

Just tell me what you saw this morning like in two ines. I saw a water glass on a brown tablecloth, and the light came through it in three places. No metaphor. And to resist a metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself, which hurts us for some reason.

Agate, population 70, is one of those towns that people describe as 'blink and you'll miss it.' Lois A. Engel loved living in the blink.

It is better to have nothing, for at last even our bones will fall. It is better to have nothing.

When the lord says you must 'become as one of these little ones,' I take Him to mean you must be stripped of all the accretions of smugness and pretence and triviality.

It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying.

Your mother asked him if he would like to say grace, and he did, with an elegant simplicity that seemed almost wasted on macaroni and cheese.

The idea of grace had been so much on my mind, grace as a sort of ecstatic fire that takes things down to essentials.

I'm a simple man who was brought up by a complicated man. So I have mannerisms and so on. Vocabulary. People can be misled.

It was another cabin with a stoop, and a dooryard beaten bare.

It is the elegance of nature that creates even the appearance of simplicity... It is not respectable to say that an organism is designed to be both stable as an entity and mutable in response to environment, though it must be said that this complex equilibrium is amazing and beautiful and everywhere repeated in a wealth of variations that can seem like virtuosity regaling itself with its own brilliance.

Gilead was the kind of town where dogs slept in the road for the sun and the warmth that lingered after the sun was gone, and the few cars that there were had to stop and honk until the dogs decided to get up and let them pass by. They'd go limping off to the side, lamed by the comfort they'd had to give up, and then they'd settle down again right where they were before. It really wasn't much of a town.