Quotes About Simplicity

Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

Escribir bien cuesta. Por escribir bien entiendo decir con la máxima simplicidad las cosas esenciales.

La vida, perquè sigui vida, s'ha de viure a poc a poc...

If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)

To think like a computer programmer, it helps to be lazy.)

When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

The Shelly he knew had tried too hard to be sexy. This woman didn't bother with make-up or fixing her hair. Yet she was damn near irresistible. For a second he imagined this babe chasing him around like Shelly had… and letting her catch him. He'd have that sundress off her in no time.

She never asked for too much. She just wanted to be ordinary.

You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Sempre olhamos os seres alados com alguma inveja. Falta-nos a arte do voo. Desconhecemos, porém, que existem outros métodos para voar. E um deles, o mais simples e acessível, é deixarmo-nos encantar pelas suas histórias secretas.

Sou feliz só por preguiça. A infelicidade dá uma trabalheira pior que doença: é preciso entrar e sair dela, afastar os que nos querem consolar, aceitar pêsames por uma porção da alma que nem chegou a falecer.

Live simple, and simply live.

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

I just used a very simple way to explain what are deep ideas, and why can't that be literature?

With their less-than-rudimentary musicianship, Beat Happening might have been making a conceptual point, but it was also the best they could manage.

it could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, lovin you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars, tell me who i have to be, to get some reciprocity..

designers actually can change the world for the better by making the complicated simple and finding beauty in truth.

And I was reminded of something I learned from another mentor, my first boss after I graduated, Massimo Vignelli, who once described the difference between complication and complexity. A love affair that's complex is wonderful, he said, but a love affair thats complicated is a disaster.

The zombie, of course, is a metaphor.  He stands for the results—whatever they are—of man's hostility to honesty, simplicity, truth, and love. The

My Jesus, I have now seen that everything in the world is vanity, that only one thing is necessary: to love You and serve You with fidelity, to resemble and make myself entirely like unto You.