Quotes About Simplicity

The simplistic nature of Islamism means that it thrives on victim narratives and clearly identifiable enemies. When there is no such simple, immediate outside threat against which sentiment can be rallied, and when peaceful coexistence is self-evidently in people's day-to-day interest, it finds it much less easy to gain traction.

Don't use fancy words to make things sound better than they are or try to impress people. Build your breakthrough objectives using straight, clear, everyday language that your employees will understand.

You will not be able to pray purely if you are all involved with material affairs and agitated with unremitting concerns. For prayer is the rejection of concepts." — Evagrius Ponticus

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent.

In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden.

The ancient Greeks told of a philosopher eating bread and lentils for dinner. He was approached by another man, who lived sumptuously by flattering the king. Said the flatterer, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king, you would not have to live on lentils." The philosopher replied, "If you would learn to live on lentils, you would not have to give up your independence in order to be docile and acquiescent to the king.

I believe the houses of the future will be...designed to welcome rather than to impress. People...will want homes in which every room is used every day and in which there are no wasted spaces--homes less like furniture stores or warehouses and more like nests.

The secret to money is so simple that most people completely miss it, because they're looking for some grand answer about this resource called money, which has so much power over them."

You know a whole lot more about money than you think you do. You've only been misled to believe that you don't know by people who don't want you to understand how simple money really is."

The smaller the understanding of the situation, the more pretentious the form of expression.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.

To extract a child from a shallow grave seems at first, to the casual observer, a ludicrously simple matter.

Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.

It's the simple things we miss, she thought.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Se la gente non crede che la matematica è semplice, è solo perché non capisce quanto è complicata la vita.

Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.

If everything isn't black and white I say why the hell not.

One thing we might do is to try day by day to grasp something which is the simplest and yet the hardest thing for any of us to grasp: that the gospel is true; that growth in the Christian life is simply growth in seeing that the gospel is true; that Jesus Christ is the preeminent reality of all things.