Quotes About Simplicity

Zones are easier just to throw out there and you don't have to really teach it.

I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It's not hustle and bustle and busy, so that's helpful. We travel all over the world, but I've always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

In action, be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

The best direction is the least possible direction.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, Offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, Neat, through loopholes Less than themselves.

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Form ever follows function.

And all the loveliest things there be Come simply, so it seems to me.

Beauty is an ecstacy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.

Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.

The fewer the words, the better prayer.

If a cluttered desk is an indication of a cluttered mind, what is indicated by an empty desk?

Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.