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Quotes About Simplicity

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
~ Alan Watts
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.
~ Joan Blades
What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.
~ Huston Smith
Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.
~ Thucydides
As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging, there is a simplicity that is crucial.
~ Ryan Seacrest
For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.
~ Karl Lehmann
Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.
~ Frederic Chopin
If you have more than five goals, you have none.
~ Peter Drucker
The surest way of achieving your goal is through the single-minded pursuit of simple actions.
~ Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
~ Paul Rand
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.
~ Joko Beck
At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.
~ Jodi Rell
Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.
~ Li Ka-shing
My mantra is if you want to help people accomplish some goal, make it easy.
~ Richard Thaler
Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.
~ Sigourney Weaver
Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.
~ Maurice Saatchi
When you have accomplished your goal simply walk away. This is the path way to Heaven.
~ Laozi
That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.
~ John Baldessari
Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.
~ Leon M. Lederman
My ultimate research goal is to transform our human existence to just eating, sleeping, drinking, playing - nevermind.
~ Luis von Ahn
My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.
~ Bruno Schulz
Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.
~ Jonathan Ive
The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.
~ Norbert Wiener