Quotes About Simplicity

The Way returns the carved and the polished to simplicity.

The nobility of the ancients was no more than purity and serenity--what need for bushels of emblems?

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity." —Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate in physics

I was naughty but never demanding. I never asked my parents for shoes or tracksuits. I was happy with what I had.

My childhood was great. We never had much but we were happy. I was a handful, though, and I did some naughty things.

I'm not a fashion person. I basically like to wear navy blue, and I don't need a lot of extras.

My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land.

Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.

I wrote a lot about the need for an information appliance. I think we've pretty much arrived at one: the iPad. A child could figure out how to use it quickly. Compare it to a DOS computer or even an Apple II; it's no longer nearly as much of a hassle or a mystery.

What is poor? We had food. We dressed well. We didn't have a lot, but what we had fit, and it was always neat.

Most healthy people want to coach Little League, they want to go to church and they want to have great coworkers at the office and they want to put on faceplate when Nebraska's point football on Saturdays. That's the most natural way to live.

I love hi-tech kitchens, but that doesn't necessarily mean full of appliances.

Plurality should not be posited without necessity.

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.

Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

'Heyy Babyy' needed fast cutting and eye contact. It didn't need fancy camera angles.

I don't care about having a fancy car. I don't have a lot of the wants and needs that a lot of people have where I would need to make a $1 million a fight.

I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.

I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.

I don't live in a fancy neighborhood.

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

I don't belong to any social network, and I don't even message much. In fact, most of the time, I don't even use my mobile phone.

What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.