Quotes About Simplicity

Based on everything I've seen, a simple recipe can work: focus on what's in front of you, design great days to create a great life, and try not to make the same mistake twice. That's it.

Tell people what you want, not what you don't want, and keep it simple.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." –Henry David Thoreau American essayist and philosopher, author of Walden "What gets measured gets managed." –Peter Drucker Considered "the founder of modern management," author of The Effective Executive "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike." –Oscar Wilde Irish writer, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray

There is more to life than increasing its speed. —MOHANDAS GANDHI

Lazy: A Manifesto

There is more freedom to be gained from practicing poverty than chasing wealth. Suffer a little regularly and you often cease to suffer.

After four weeks, we tallied the results. His average monthly fat loss had gone from roughly 5 lbs to 18.75 lbs, a 275% increase. He'd tripled his fat loss by spending less than two minutes consuming a protein shake each morning. Astonishing? Not really. I'd seen the pattern in the data across hundreds of people: simple works, complex fails.

capacidad de hacer una sola cosa cada vez es un superpoder.

Success" need not be complicated. Just start with making 1,000 people extremely, extremely happy. Kevin

Once you get fancy, fancy gets broken.

Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).

don't recommend using Outlook or computerized to-do lists, because it is possible to add an infinite number of items. I use a standard piece of paper folded in half three times, which fits perfectly in the pocket and limits you to noting only a few items. There should never

If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? "Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.

Malgastamos la vida con detalles… Simplifica, simplifica… Un hombre es rico en proporción a la cantidad de cosas de las que puede prescindir.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. —ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, pioneer

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de Saint-Exup

Prepara una taza de té (a mí me gusta el pu-erh) y siéntate

Adelantar esta tarea ¿convertiría las demás en triviales o más fáciles de despachar después?». Dicho de otra manera: «¿Cuál de estas cosas, en caso de estar hecha, facilitaría las demás o las convertiría en irrelevantes?».

The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential . . . in Business and in Life, Essential Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change, Briefly, and several other books.

To prevent work for work's sake, and to do the minimum necessary for maximum effect ("minimum effective load").

Si sientes continuamente la contraproducente necesidad de tener volumen de trabajo y de hacer muchas cosas, escribe esto en un post-it:

Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify…. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." —Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Marie Kondo method: "Discard [say no to] everything that does not spark joy." This includes personal obligations. I'm working

Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don't want. This is true of possessions and even time.