Quotes About Simplicity

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way.

Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.

It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential. The closer to the source, the less wastage there is.

It's not daily increase but daily decrease—hack away the unessentials!

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Say it clearly and you make it beautiful no matter what.

Historja tych filmów bywa prosta, banalna, w banalno?ci swej gryz?ca, jak machorka. Filmy takie, wy?wietlane dziesi?tkami w podmiejskich iluzjonach, wyciskaj? ?zy z oczu sentymentalnych szwaczek.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

A mathematician once told me that there are really only four numbers in the world: one, two, three, and many.

you'll have to be willing to embrace simplicity—while always resisting oversimplification.

Too much information will make your brain choke.

would that turtle rather have its bones treasured in death, or be alive dragging its tail in the mud? … Go! I'll keep my tail in the mud, too" (247). So Zhuangzi recommends that we do not seek prominence.

I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.

The simple things in life are the greatest gifts.

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything; you let go of everything.

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Time was when we made our own toys; when a piece of twine, a spool, a few nails and a bit of imagination could keep us busy and happy all day long.

Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play.

My dear sir, in this world it is not so easy to settle these plain things. I have ever found your plain things the knottiest of all.