Quotes About Simplicity

I've never really gone for the razzle-dazzle types: no quarterbacks, no flashy guys, and no Prince Charmings.

Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it made me take my writing seriously.

I'm probably not your typical business person in many ways. I don't wear a suit. I don't carry a briefcase. I don't wear a tie. I'm fairly casual. I haven't got a big office, and it's in a very ordinary part of town. I'd much prefer to downplay than impress.

I'm from a typical middle-class family in Delhi, with one of the most down-to-earth childhoods.

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.

We knew that iMac was fast; we didn't need to make it ugly.

There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

I'm always looking to the lightweight superproduct that you apply and almost don't see. That's the ultimate, at least for me.

The ultimate fun is doing nothing. I like doing nothing with people I like - maybe just eating, hanging out and talking.

It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.

Ultimately it's the simple things that make a difference.

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.

I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation.

People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.