Quotes About Simplicity

Truth is always simple.

And then another friend spoke up and said, If what you tell is true, and it does seem as you have said, reasonable, then being so simple, if all men did it, there would not be enough wealth to go around. Wealth grows wherever men exert energy, Arkad replied. If a rich man builds him a new palace, is the gold he pays out

partir deste dia, usarei a sua chave. Devo começar humildemente como ele começou, o que é muito mais adequado à minha verdadeira posição do que joias e roupas finas.

Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué.

Quoique paysan et simple laboureur, Germain s'était rendu compte de ses devoirs et de ses affections.

j'ai bien senti le beau dans le simple

I know better than any one what to think about my own plans, and I am always astonished that the critics dig so deep for them, when the simplest ideas, the most commonplace incidents, are the only inspiration to which the products of art owe their being. ~ April 12, 1851 in the Notice

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Oh, mansion shmansion. Did Gandhi's house have the largest outdoor trampoline in the tristate area? Did Jesus have a two-acre remote-controlled car track, with mountains to scale and a little village that lit up at night? Not in his Bible.

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to. The comic is the truth stripped of the habitual, the cushioning, the easy consolation.

For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear the leaves and listen to the rain, and look to the day when it is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.

Isn't it interesting that—in the English language, at least—there's a word for making things simple ("simplification" or "simplify"), but no word for making things easy or fun.

Overloaded people are always on the lookout for something that will make things simpler and easier. Instead of studying all about a product and going through a difficult decision process that they may not have enough knowledge to do well, they ask someone else.

Word of mouth is the most effective way of making decisions easier and simpler in an overwhelmingly difficult and complex world.

Your job as a marketer is to make your product the "easiest-to-decide-on" product in its field.

F.W. Woolworth, the founder of the largest retail chain of its time, said, "I'm the world's worst salesman. Therefore, I must make it easy to buy.

El escritor de hoy tiende a usar cada vez menos palabras y cada vez más simples, tanto porque la cultura de masas ha diluido el concepto de cultura literaria como porque la suma de realidades que el lenguaje podía expresar de forma necesaria y suficiente ha disminuido de manera alarmante.

Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I'd use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheered on the Bulldogs of Midland High. On Sunday mornings, we went to church. Nobody locked their doors. Years later, when I would speak about the American Dream, it was Midland I had in mind.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

Ne plus rien vouloir. Attendre jusqu'à ce qu'il n'y ait plus rien à attendre. [...] Ce sera devant toi, au fil du temps, une vie immobile, sans crise, sans désordre : nulle aspérité, nul déséquilibre. Minute après minute, heure après heure, jour après jour, saison après saison [...]

INTERVIEWER What do you mean by "too literary"? What do you cut out, certain kinds of words? SIMENON Adjectives, adverbs, and every word which is there just to make an effect. Every sentence which is there just for the sentence. You know, you have a beautiful sentence—cut it. Every time I find such a thing in one of my novels it is to be cut.

Have you limitations, my lord? asked Sir Anthony. My lord looked at him seriously. I do not know, he said, with a revealing simplicity. I have never yet discovered them.

I find myself at one with Dr Johnson, who declared—did he not?—that one green field was just like another!