Quotes About Simplicity

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want call us and we'll show you how to live without it."

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

As you let go of the complications, emotional toxins, and everything else that isn't serving you, you will be free to experience the happiness that exists in simplicity.

In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.

When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

Live light. Offload internal and external baggage for peace within and peace without.

We need the tonic of wildness.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best

There is one art, no more, no less, to do all things with artlessness.

Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced.

People react positively when things are clear and understandable.

Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.