Quotes About Simplicity

I want to be able to run about like the goats do.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

He tells a story, and that's what I like. Does this fella tell a story? He doesn't spend twenty pages describing the colour of the sky?' 'He hasn't so far.' 'Good. Jeffrey Archer never talks about the colour of the sky and I like that in a writer. I'd say Jeffrey Archer has never even looked up at the sky his entire life.' 'Especially now that he's in prison,' I suggested.

Honestly, Ignac, I look back at my life and I don't understand very much of it. It seems like it would have been so simple now to have been honest with everyone, especially Julian.

the priests said that food was not there to be enjoyed but simply to keep us alive. Simplicity of diet was important.

One of the significant lessons in my life was given me by Abraham Low, the founder of Recovery, Inc. He said that "intellectualizing about our problems is complex but easy, while doing something about them is simple but difficult." Shame-based intellectuals love to analyze.

My poalitics is just an auld wife's poalitics that wants to be left in peace by her fireside…

words easy to be understood often hit the mark, whereas high and learned words only pierce the air.

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

When there are multiple solutions to a problem, choose the simplest one.

The index fund is a most unlikely hero for the typical investor. It is no more (nor less) than a broadly diversified portfolio, typically run at rock-bottom costs, without the putative benefit of a brilliant, resourceful, and highly skilled portfolio manager. The index fund simply buys and holds the securities in a particular index, in proportion to their weight in the index. The concept is simplicity writ large.

To do well at a few things, give up many things.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough.

Being simple is hard work.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple. —John C. Maxwell

to put it as philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson did, "To be simple is to be great.

Isabel Moore aptly stated, "Life is a one-way street. No matter how many detours you take, none of them leads back. And once you know and accept that, life becomes much simpler.

Material handouts are a poor substitute for love and understanding. People don't need more things—they need more tenderness

Connectors do the difficult work of keeping it simple.

The larger the group, the simpler the communication needs to be.

Todas las cosas son fáciles de entender cuando se descubren. El punto es descubrirlas. Eso requiere investigación".

Los educadores toman algo simple y lo vuelven complicado. Los comunicadores toman algo complicado y lo hacen simple. —John C. Maxwell