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Quotes About Simplicity

I think what really people want is just a few things done really, really well. And if you think about ever day of your life, the things you really appreciate aren't the complicated things. They're the simple things that work just the way you expect them to.
~ Jason Fried
I just want people to realize that it doesn't take much to be a good person. Simple things is all it takes.
~ Brian Ortega
Football - a simple game really, yet generally, in the game, we make the simple things seem harder. But it's those simple things that get you to the top.
~ Craig Bellamy
I am a regular kid. I like the simple things, and I always want to improve.
~ Gabriel Jesus
Mum is a fantastic knitter - she taught me, too, but I can only manage simple things.
~ Rachel Khoo
Since not everyone is looking for something elaborate, I've come up with a range of simple things that everyone can buy and wear.
~ Neelam Kothari
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
~ Marcel Proust
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
~ Georges Simenon
Well, you know, I kind of lived my whole life with people, on a Navy ship, and I'm son of an immigrant. And we've all - really appreciate being able to make something clear in a simple way that families quite understand.
~ Joe Sestak
My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
~ Bill Viola
When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.
~ Shekhar Kapur
As you get older, you develop your style. For me, the simpler, the better.
~ Cheryl Ladd
The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
~ Nancy Lopez
Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
~ Laurance Rockefeller
I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers.
~ Jeff Bezos
Any work that is born out of natural serendipity or reverts to simpler times is poignant for people - in any era.
~ Cai Guo-Qiang
When 'Family Matters,' and 'Full House' were on, back then it was a simpler time.
~ Reginald VelJohnson
I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.
~ Butch Trucks
As I've gotten older, I've gotten simpler - my level of aspiration has actually gone down and down. But my level of impact has gone up and up.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
In my own life, as the nearer I get to the end of life on this earth, the simpler I want to become.
~ Fred Rogers
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
~ William Osler
The simpler things are, the happier they are.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.
~ Linus Pauling
I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.
~ Ali MacGraw