Quotes About Simplify

The trouble with traffic engineers is that when there's a problem with a road, they always try to add something. To my mind, it's much better to remove things.

I've concentrated upon the things I control, and used that control to remove the restrictions and complications from my life.

I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.

Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.

What would this look like if it were easy?

When in doubt or overwhelmed, take a break and 80/20 both business and personal activities and relationships.

Then, I did what I often do—whether considering a business decision, personal relationship, or otherwise—I asked myself the one question that helps answer many others . . . What would this look like if it were easy?

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?

If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.

About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.

Why say 'utilize' when you can say 'use'?

The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.

To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.

For salaries less than $50,000, focus the employer on the dollar per hour amount. Simplify and minimize the concession you need.

I just want to make lunches and organize my kids' playroom.

If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed by the daily decisions you have to make, it's time to automate something.

The customer is always right, but different customers are right about different things; the least sophisticated users show you what you need to simplify and clarify, and the most sophisticated tell you what features you need to add.

How do we simplify this process at the individual level? Easy. We take the same basic concept that we use for self-defense in the United States and we transfer it overseas. If you feel your life or the life of another is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm, you can use deadly force to protect yourself or others.

Throw away, shred, or recycle anything that has no potential future action or reference value.

Bixiou. "Don't you think all that is a little too florid? I should tone down the poetry. 'Imperial idol!' 'bent the knee!' damn it, my dear fellow, writing vaudevilles has ruined your style; you can't come down to pedestrial prose. I should say, 'He belonged to the small number of those who.' Simplify, simplify! the man himself was a simpleton.

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.