Quotes About Simplicity

You can explain it to a Congressman in six minutes and he can talk about it for six months.

Mathematics is common sense.

It means you're best off resisting the lure of the hot new fund that made 10% over the last twelve months. Better to follow the deeply unsexy advice you're probably sick of hearing, the "eat your vegetables and take the stairs" of financial planning: instead of hunting for a magic system or an adviser with a golden touch, put your money in a big dull low-fee index fund and forget about it.

I tucked him in with his stuffed-animal pet dog—cleverly named Dog-Dog, by the way.

La vita es fácil, Marga. Nosotros somos los que la complicamos.

Vestía con la misma sobriedad que el hombre de la escopeta: ropas sencillas, discretas, con aire de usadas, pero aun con ellas no perdía el punto de elegancia y clase, la dignidad de la que siempre se había revestido. La misma que no se perdía ni se ganaba con una guerra, porque iba pegada a la piel y al carácter como un sello de poder.

él parecía hacerlo fácil. Mientras las piernas

Piénsame mucho, le dije besando el pelo de su madre y la mano con que lo acomodaba. -¡Ah! ¡Mucho, mucho! Respondió mirándome con aquella ternura e inocencia que tan bien sabían hermanarse en sus ojos.

There are two ways of ridding ourselves of a thing which burdens us, casting it away or letting it fall. To cast away requires an effort of which we may not be capable, to let fall imposes no labour, is simpler, without peril, within reach of all. To cast away, again, implies a certain interest, a certain animation, even a certain fear; to let fall is absolute indifference, absolute contempt; believe me, use this method, and Satan will flee.

Beauty is everything.

Hiçbir ÅŸey beklemiyorum. Böylece hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸram?yorum.

Las gentes no suelen ponerse de acuerdo si no es en cosas un poco bellacas o un poco tontas.

Las rutinas defendidas hoy por los mediocres son simples glosas colectivas de ideales, concebidos ayer por hombres originales.

proverbio árabe: "Un mediano bienestar tranquilo es preferible a la opulencia llena de preocupaciones".

No matter how simple your life is as long as you're happy, then live with it....

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,And when we find ourselves in the place just right,'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.

This kind of art school is for me the least important. A spiritual structure is needed. If a person is an artist he can use the most primitive of instruments:- a broken knife is enough. Otherwise it remains a craft school.

To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

Getting rid of most of my personal library comported nicely with my longheld fantasy of traveling light, existing with minimal encumbrances, living simply. A fantasy it has always been, for the longr I have lived, the heavier has my equipage grown.

'Mongst all these stirs of discontented strife,O, let me lead an academic life;To know much, and to think for nothing, knowNothing to have, yet think we have enow.

In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously obstructed natural forces to flow forward into the future. Simplicity and austerity, not equality or individualism, were the messages of his inaugural march. It was a minimalist statement about a purging of excess and a recovery of essence.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.