Quotes About Simplicity

I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time - kids didn't have cellphones then - and you knew everyone in the town.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

I pack a toothbrush, toothpaste, and deodorant. That's it. I don't have the time or patience for anything else. I'm a natural kind of guy. I don't style my hair - never learned how.

Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write.

Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play.

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don't know. I'm a country kid, so I don't like modern technology.

The little black dress expresses a moment of freedom and individuality every time.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.

Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.

Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime.

The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: (1) Define a short to-do list and (2) define a not-to-do list.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

He did not have to do anything here. He could just be. Perhaps that was the best and most enduring of lessons one could learn from life.

They had not felt the absence of larger celebrations. They had wanted only each other. Their world had been complete.

Si pudiéramos mantener siempre el vínculo con la tierra — dijo—, nos evitaríamos muchos problemas. ¿No te parece? —A veces nos dejamos embriagar tanto por la extraña idea de que somos los amos de todo lo que vemos que se nos olvida nuestra condición de simples criaturas de la naturaleza — contestó él.

Most men were simple. They were looking for security, or power, or a feeling of usefulness or of certainty or competence. A cause to fight for, a problem to solve, a place to fit in. There were many possibilities but once you grasped what a man was looking for, you had the beginnings of understanding.

Unless you're like my friend, poet Brooks Haxton (who translates Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, and German), throwing in three-dollar words will just make you look like a dick.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Mark Twain The

I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.

Praying It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.

The Old Poets Of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.

You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world — and there are plenty — very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.