Quotes About Simplicity

What I have found is that the best way to unwind is cooking. You only have two hands. If you are chopping veggies, you are forcing yourself to put the phone down or step away from the computer. It's extremely relaxing.

Sometimes, if I really just need to unwind and kind of watch something that isn't gonna stress me out or have drama in it, I watch 'Spongebob.'

With pop, it's pretty much straight up and down. It has to be simple. Everybody has to be able to walk down the street and be able to sing it.

I'm from the middle of nowhere. I had to drive four hours just to find a city. It's a different upbringing. It was perfect for me. I love the small-town feel, where you know everybody.

My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.

It was a fairly normal happy upbringing. Not a lot of money, but a lot of love.

We used to live in this little house where the whole of the upper floor was used for chickens. It was four days' walk to the nearest road.

I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.

We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion.

Elegant writers depict intricacy with simplicity.

People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home

One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones.

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

He did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.