Quotes About Simplicity

Le più grandi idee sono le più semplici.

Las ideas más brillantes son siempre las más sencillas.

En büyük düÅŸünceler, en basit olanlar?d?r.

The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion.

Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.

La existencia era realmente muy sencilla cuando uno obedecía órdenes. No había nada mejor ni más fácil que lo que le aguardaba.

Complexity emerging from underlying simplicity may be a natural law itself.

This is what I think about it: My old man and I lived for fifty years seeking happiness and not finding it; and it is only now, these last two years, since we had nothing left and have lived as laborers, that we have found real happiness, and we wish for nothing better than our present lot.

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

The supreme contemporary example of such an inability to feel evil is of course Walt Whitman. His favorite occupation, writes his disciple, Dr. Bucke seemed to be strolling or sauntering about outdoors by himself, looking at the grass, the trees, the flowers, the vistas of light, the varying aspects of the sky, and listening to the birds, the crickets, the tree frogs, and all the hundreds of natural sounds.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

Era como volver a ser niña, aunque no lo fuera. No hay nada comparable a ser niño. Ser niño es solo ser. Después, cuando lo pensamos, lo convertimos en juventud.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.*

Unsullied poverty is always happy, while impure wealth brings with it many sorrows.

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

I keep telling Chris that life is simpler that way. Much simpler. Stop looking back over your shoulder, I tell him. There ain't no deliverer running just a little behind schedule. March to the stake like a man and take the bullet in your chest. Much simpler.

Clarity dissolves resistance.

They think if something is simple enough to be put in a checklist, a monkey can do it. Well, if that's true, grab a pilot's checklist and try your luck with a 747.

avoid useless accuracy, and to dodge the Curse of Knowledge, is to use analogies.

Simple ideas: short sentences (compact) drawn from long experience

PRINCIPLE 1: SIMPLICITY How do we find the essential core of our ideas? A successful defense lawyer says, "If you argue ten points, even if each is a good point, when they get back to the jury room they won't remember any.

When you appeal to the Rider inside yourself or inside others you are trying to influence, your game plan should be simple. First, follow the bright spots. Think of the Vietnamese children who stayed well nourished against the odds

Rule #1. Simpler Is Better: Round with Enthusiasm.

Rule 2. Concrete Is Better: Use Whole Numbers to Describe Whole Objects, Not Decimals, Fractions, or Percentages.27