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Quotes About Simplicity

A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.
~ John Muir
If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away," Alex cheerfully retorted. "I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.
~ Jon Krakauer
People want to feel effortless about their clothes. I don't always get it, I make a lot of mistakes, but that's my goal.
~ Keith Michael
When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity.
~ Ken McCarthy
I think it's definitely important to look like yourself on a date. You don't want to look like someone else with too much makeup or too much hair.
~ Lauren Conrad
Just have a little bit of something that you want. Don't overdo it.
~ Leighton Meester
When I'm choosing things, there's a level of intelligence I want to peel off, whether it's written in terribly simple sentences, whether it's from the point of view of a dog, or a 15-year-old boy.
~ Lynne Tillman
Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I don't like to eat in movies. I don't like props. Some people have always got to have a thing and they're doing this or doing that. I hate it. I just want to talk or fight. Or both!
~ Mark Wahlberg
Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.
~ Mary Oliver
I actually live a very mediocre lifestyle. So I decided to step back and do things not just for the sake of doing them, but because I believe in them and I want to do them.
~ Mila Kunis
My goal is to make one-not a hodgepodge, but just the sort of record that I would want to listen to.
~ Moby
Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.
~ Neil Gaiman
Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.
~ Patricia Wentworth
Radically simplify the user interface, reinvent it, enough face lifts! You can put as much lipstick on a chicken as you want, it's never going to look good!
~ Philippe Kahn
I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
~ Rachel Zoe
Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.
~ Regina Spektor
Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak
~ you believe My word
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
~ Warren Buffett
In war, only the simple succeeds.
~ Paul von Hindenburg
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
~ Warren Buffett
Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
~ Carl von Clausewitz