Quotes About Simplicity

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

I say to people, keep it simple. If you want to change your food, change your breakfast.

Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.

Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

One of the easiest ways to go green is to go small. I want to show people that there's an amazing modern green future, and make it easy for them to step into it.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.

Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.

I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.

It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!

Now that I'm a pez and a LEGO I don't really want for any more.

I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.