Quotes About Simplicity

I have pretty unsophisticated tastes; I enjoy the videos on 'You've Been Framed' a lot - I don't think there's much that's funnier than people falling over. I prefer that to Bill Hicks.

I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing it is just to keep it honest and real.

At first, when I did everything myself, I'd set up a tripod, film and then press stop. That's why all my shots are on a tripod and don't move, and that's why my videos are still filmed this way.

There are tough elements of rural life of course, but I didn't put them in my videos.

I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.

My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties.

He loved numbers, their patterns and secrets, the way something complex could be reduced to something simple. In mathematics, unlike life, there was always a solution, a definite answer.

I don't need any trinkets or pictures to remind me of my faith—all I need to do is stare out the window at the woods, and see how beautiful they are.

After a long moment, he heard his mother say ruefully, "Sometimes I miss the days when I could solve any of my children's problems with a nap and a biscuit.

Parry Gripp got famous for "It's Raining Tacos". It doesn't have to be that deep!

Life's too short to fold fitted sheets!

My second concern about Occam's Razor is just a matter of fact. The world is more complicated than any of us would have been likely to conceive. Some particles and properties don't seem necessary to any physical processes that matter—at least according to what we've deduced so far. Yet they exist. Sometimes the simplest model just isn't the correct one.

This is all true. So much so that the simplicity of the words feels about as right as a sunrise over mountains or the gasp of knowing that occurs when you realize for the first time that you understood something you'd been trying to grasp for years, and the difficulty wasn't in its complexity but its simplicity. There was something you'd been missing, something you didn't even know to look for.

Mom always said a simple thank you covered a lot of bases.

The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.'

But is life a success when it doesn't include time for after-school talks, and curling up to read books on winter nights, and weaving daisy chains in the summer? Is it a success when you have all the big things but none of the small ones? Is it as it should be when everybody grows up and moves to opposite coasts and doesn't care if they ever see each other?

I'm hungry for water and sky and days that aren't divided by the tiny squares in an appointment book.

I wish I had not spent my hours worrying over another nickel for the carousel, but instead running barefoot through the fields of yellow bonnets.

Living, really living, wasn't about clinging to control but about giving it away.

The train scoots along in a slow, lazy sway, like a mama rocking her baby, too lost in the look of her child to think of the day's work done or the hard row ahead.

even though Jack wasn't a romantic man in big showy ways, those little things let me know his feelings more than any high-dollar roses on Valentine's Day ever could have. In Corinthians, Paul says love's not boastful, so I reckon Jack got it right. His love was patient and quiet, and it endured.