Quotes About Simplicity

I don't think my parents ever knew what they did for us. They were to busy doing what needed to be done. As far as we as she was concerned, we were rich as Rockefeller; I never heard her wish for more. She made us feel like we had everything, and we though so, too.

We didn't have a lot of money but just enough, apparently. because we had the basics, warm beds, clean jammies, friends, shoes, grilled cheese sandwiches, and parents wno loved us. I always thought we were rich because I felt so happy.

On packing Lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then, take half the clothes and twice the money.

Life was so simple for a dog. Eat. Walk. Dump. Nap. Eat. Dump. Sleep. And then do it all over again the next day. There was beauty in simplicity.

There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.

I wouldn't say I'm that social... I'm either sailing my boat by myself or living in some small place.

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.

I'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it.

I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.

I am not on social media, as I don't feel the need to communicate with the outside world. People who matter to me are just a call away.

I wear cheap shoes. I don't even wear socks.

Plain white T-shirts do it for me every time. You can spend anything from £3 to £50 on a T-shirt, but I've bought some great ones from H&M, as well as shelling out on Duffer Of St George and a Polish label I discovered while filming 'Robin Hood' in Hungary called Scotch And Soda.

There's no reason that we need to be counting things and adding things up in order to sit down and eat a meal. I enjoy eating so much; I don't want to do match every time I eat. I guarantee you, maybe your diet soda has no calories, but it's still poison. We have to think about what are we putting in our mouths.

There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.

The idea behind our shoes is simple: they are as light as possible, very soft and made from the finest leather we can buy. We try to make a combination of something that looks fantastic and is at the same time fantastically comfortable. This is the type of luxury people want to buy now, things that they can use every day.

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

I wanted to do life, do something interesting. I ran out of things I wanted to say in my music, so I just put it down, sold all my gear, and put on some overalls and reconnected with the soil.

I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.

To me theres nothing nicer than a pan-fried sole and some fresh salad, keep it simple.

I prefer simpler shirts, like a solid oxford or pinstripe, and with a solid cashmere crewneck or V-neck.

You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.

Most people don't really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.