Quotes About Simplicity

But since soup mainly involves tossing everything in a pot and waiting, it's one of my better dishes.

No fancy hair and clothes, no flaming capes. Just me. Looking like I could be headed for the woods. It calms me." - Katniss

Se sentía tan libre y relajado... ¿Y si fuera esa su vida: levantarse a la hora que le diese la gana, salir a buscar lo que quisiera de comer ese día y pasear con Lucy Gray a las orillas del lago? ¿Quién necesitaba dinero, éxito y poder cuando tenía amor? ¿No decían que era lo más importante de todo?

Le yoga est une autodiscipline basée sur ces deux principes : vie simple et pensée élevée.

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

People get out ahead of themselves in debt with spending on all of their desires. But if you learn to live pretty simply and well, well under your means, you feel incredibly, incredibly rich, and that frees you up and gives you the option to start something new, to leave the job you're not excited about, where there might be a glass ceiling on you.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

There is a huge misconception that you need to spend hours in the kitchen to produce something special.

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

Sometimes, the hardest things are just the simple things. Basically, get out of your own head and just go play the game you know how to play.

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.

I like to focus on making the music sound simple and true, and very lush and full. I think music should take you to somewhere else where you have the space to contemplate or exercise your imagination. All the while you should be feeling real good, like when you have a delicious and decadent meal, macaroni and cheese or foie gras.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

I like songs that are simple.

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

I think cookery shows have become so sophisticated, and everyone's so marvellous at it, but there are people like me who aren't into the cooking malarkey, who still don't know how to boil an egg for three minutes.