Quotes About Simplicity

Era anche troppo facile pensare che fosse quella l'arma che aveva ucciso monna Vana, troppo facile. Ma d'altra parte non erano i maestri di Francia, i filosofi che tenevano lezione nel vicolo degli Strami a Parigi, a insegnarci che la causa semplice è regina sulla causa complessa? E che la Natura, oltre che del vuoto, ha parimenti orrore dell'inutile complessità?

To joyously savor one singleinstant of initiallife I seek an innocentcountry

Not smart. Happily stupid. Stupidly happy.

It was a terrible refreshment, his plain way, the simple words, the absence of strategy. It made you realize how much of your life you spent not being like that. It made you realize what a waste not being like that was.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

What was it Chekhov once said? 'We live for love, and for hope and dreams, and for the small things that please us and for little else.

The more I know about men the more I like dogs.

Life's too short to spend time trying to explain the obvious to an idiot.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good." Somerset Maugham.

The truth is always the best approach when saying no. Keep it simple. People don't need to hear your sob story. A five-minute exposition about your busy life, your demanding mother, or your clinging children isn't the most effective approach. That may be the truth, but you've given too much information, and your listener tuned out four minutes ago.

If decision making taxes our self-regulation, then an easy response is to minimize decisions before tackling something we've been procrastinating.

The extreme ability to find the complex simple, to simplify the complex and to find complexity in the simple is the hallmark of genius.

There is always an easier honest path.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

oamenii ferici?i sunt aceia care tr?iesc asemenea copiilor, î?i duc p?pu?ile în bra?e, le îmbrac? ?i le dezbrac?, dau târcoale, cu mare respect, cutiei în care mama a încuiat zaharul, iar când, în sfâr?it, au c?p?tat buc??ica de zah?r, o m?nânc? cu poft? ?i strig?: "Mai d?-mi!"...Fericite fiin?e!

Bu insanlar yar?n?n bugünün getirdi?ini getirmesini dert etmeden bekleyebiliyorlar ve bu nedenle dertsiz ya?ay?p gidiyorlar. Anl?k doyum, ölçülü haz, geçici s?k?nt?, ?en bir sab?r!

Non c'è niente da capire, basta guardare.

It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.

At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. The squirrels also grew at last to be quite familiar, and occasionally stepped upon my shoe, when that was the nearest way.

Bread is the warmest, kindest of words. Write it always with a capital letter, like your own name.

Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.