Quotes About Simplicity

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Be simple. Not simple in terms of "dumbing down" or "sound bites." You don't have to speak in monosyllables to be simple. What we mean by "simple" is finding the core of the idea.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.

You don't have to speak monosyllables to be simple. What we mean by simple is finding the core of the idea.

If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

Even if I wasn't a Japanophile, I would still use chopsticks all the time, for all kinds of cuisine. Especially salads, which can be unwieldy on a fork. The cultural difference between selecting your food and stabbing it is symbolic of the quiet simplicity of the East versus the blunt directness of the West.

The cultural difference between selecting your food and stabbing it is symbolic of the quiet simplicity of the East versus the blunt directness of the West. Chopsticks are a little tricky to master at first, but once you do, it can eventually seem a bit crude that you used to poke and prod at your meal with forks and knives.

When you eat with awareness, you find that there is more space, more beauty. You begin to watch yourself, to see yourself, and you notice how clumsy you are or how accurate you are…When you practice awareness, everything becomes majestic and good. You begin to see that you have been leading a different kind of life in the past. You had the essence of mindfulness already, but you hadn't discovered it.

It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. It is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't that sophisticated.

It's hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less.

We did not have hurry. We did not have electricity or fresh water or sadness either, because none of these had been connected to our village yet.

I hate modern car radios. In my car, I don't even have a push-button radio. It's just got a dial and two knobs. Just AM. One knob makes it louder, and one knob changes the station. When you're driving, that's all I want.

Sometimes seeing everything just gets in the way.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. — PICASSO

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.