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Quotes About Simplicity

Good checklists, on the other hand, are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations.
~ Atul Gawande
the reason for the delay is not usually laziness or unwillingness. The reason is more often that the necessary knowledge has not been translated into a simple, usable, and systematic form.
~ Atul Gawande
The wording should be simple and exact, Boorman went on, and use the familiar language of the profession. Even the look of the checklist matters. Ideally, it should fit on one page. It should be free of clutter and unnecessary colors. It should use both uppercase and lowercase text for ease of reading. (He went so far as to recommend using a sans serif type like Helvetica.)
~ Atul Gawande
I just want to come and sit on your front porch and drink mint juleps.
~ August Wilson
His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade
~ Augusten Burroughs
We haven't slept together. But we've napped
~ Augusten Burroughs
When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right next to me like a real best friend, watching, and smiling, and wishing he had a mouth.
~ Augusten Burroughs
His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade.
~ Augusten Burroughs
The air is so clean out here, so fresh. Reminds me of when I was a little girl in Georgia. Then she took More from her pack and lit it.
~ Augusten Burroughs
When you're busy, you lack the time to fondle your emotional baggage. And if that sounds too reductive, remember we crawled from the swamp. Simple isn't such a terrible thing to be in this respect.
~ Augusten Burroughs
The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity.
~ Ayn Rand
What are you really seeking?' 'Freedom – to want nothing, to expect nothing, to depend on nothing.
~ Ayn Rand
There was an air of luxury about the room, but it was the luxury of expert simplicity.
~ Ayn Rand
Uno podría ser más consciente de la necesidad de conservar las cosas sencillas, ser más flexible y moverse más deprisa.
~ Spencer Johnson
No servía de nada complicar las cosas o confundirse a uno mismo con creencias que dan miedo. Si uno advertía cuándo empezaban a producirse los cambios pequeños, estaría más preparado para el gran cambio que antes o después seguramente se produciría.
~ Spencer Johnson
enseignements qui lui serviraient à l'avenir : Il faut toujours prendre soin de simplifier les enjeux, de faire preuve de souplesse, et de réagir vite. Il ne sert à rien de monter les problèmes en épingle ni de se remplir l'esprit de peurs infondées. En sachant déceler les signes annonciateurs de changement, on se prépare d'autant mieux à d'éventuels bouleversements.
~ Spencer Johnson
No hay necesidad alguna de supercomplicar las cosas o de confundirse uno mismo con temerosas creencias.
~ Spencer Johnson
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
~ St. Jerome
The important thing is not to think much, but to love much.
~ St. Theresa of Avila
The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.
~ St. Therese of the Child Jesus
My, my jeste?my pospolici, jeste?my traw? wszech?wiata i szczycimy si? t? nasz? pospolito?ci?, ?e taka powszechna, i my?leli?my, ?e wszystko mo?na w niej pomie?ci?.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Hygge is experiencing quiet joy in any given moment. It is the complete absence of anything annoying or emotionally overwhelming. It is taking pleasure from the things around you.
~ Stephanie Pedersen
I don't think you can appreciate the simplicity of freedom until you've suffered. She
~ Stephanie Rowe
Religious interpretations invariably reduce complexity to uniformity while elevating matter-of-factness to holiness.
~ Stephen Batchelor