Quotes About Simplicity

when we consider the purchase of anything, to ask ourselves, both as producers and consumers: Is this purchase necessary? Do I really need a new outfit to do yoga? Can I do well enough with something I already have? And will it do more than one thing?

The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to "have it all," the sooner it will die.

The best-performing firms make a narrow range of products very well. The best firms' products also use up to 50 percent fewer parts than those made by their less successful rivals. Fewer parts means a faster, simpler (and usually cheaper) manufacturing process. Fewer parts means less to go wrong; quality comes built in. And although the best companies need fewer workers to look after quality control, they also have fewer defects and generate less waste.

Buy less; buy better. Make fewer styles; design better.

If we could all come to see our consumer products as tools that help us to live our real lives—rather than as substitutes and surrogates for that life—we would need many fewer products to be happy.

Or as Dieter Rams, head of design at Braun, maintains, "Good design is as little design as possible.

The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers ended ten years ago. For ten years Mickey had been saying, "The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers is over." And that's what Archie loved about O'Connell's. Everything was remembered, nothing was lost. History was never revised or reinterpreted, adapted or whitewashed. It was as solid and as simple as the encrusted egg on the clock.

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It's great to just be here with you, watching the world go by.

She dressed for a future not yet with us but which she expected to arrive. That's what her plain white linen trousers were for, her blue-and-white-striped "Breton" T-shirt, her frayed espadrilles, her severe and beautiful African head—everything so plain, so understated, completely out of step with the spirit of the time, and with the place.

For the first time in months, she got dressed without attention to anything else except the basic practical covering of her body. She didn't do her hair. No make-up. No contact lenses. No heels. How much time she saved! How much more she would get done in this new life!

A bird is a bird Slavery means slavery A knife is a knife Death remains death

In the day, he thought of nothing; at night, he slept heavily and dreamlessly. Face pink and fat, stomach full, brain empty, he was happy.

She went on in her overalls. She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.

Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think.

Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don't pee-pee.

We don't need an abundance of things.

Nobody needs an abundance of plaid.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

All the songs I've written, if they don't sound good on acoustic guitar, they won't sound good at 11.

In my daily activities, I tend to go for light and simple clothes that are easy to work with.

Acts and laws are for people. People are not for Acts and laws. Acts and laws should be simple.

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.