Quotes About Simplicity

Any artist should be grateful for a nave grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Doing nothing is respectable at tea.

Can it be that you don't want to go strolling with your friend in the daytime under cherry trees just coming into bloom, and in the evening listen to Schubert's music? Can it be that you won't like writing with a goose

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

There is nothing complex about this most simple of moral maxims; its difficulty is in the doing, not in the knowing.

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary.

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

the more complex performance reviews become, the less effective they are.

Doesn't matter what I think or how I feel," said Doc Hansom. "Just go look at the thermometer mounted on the aquarium glass. That will give you your answer." Hansom went back to his inspections, leaving Tommy Tang to wonder why he had not thought of such a simple answer.

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.

Amplification through simplification.

Chien was careful to avoid debates over science and faith. To him, wonder was wonder and did not require further complications.

She wanted to live lightly on the earth, in harmony with its rhythms, all her senses keen and her mind alive and her spirit awake.

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

Teach us how to be stewards of technology, not slaves to technology. Teach us how to be creative, not cute; faithful, not manipulative; simple, not spectacular. Reel us back in anytime we move away from the "sincere and pure devotion to Christ" (2 Cor. 11:3). And let us never forget that you are not seeking "great worship" but true worshipers—those who worship you "in the Spirit and in truth" (John 4:23 NIV).

When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.

There's always a nice tune [on radio] - helps you get the dishes done . I like to get the news from time to time - not too often. I don't feel deprived.

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

Patch? Whatever happens, I love you." I wanted to say more, those three words painfully inadequate for the way I felt about him. And at the same time, so simple and accurate, nothing else would do.

I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.