Saturday, May 22, 2010

Simplicity (Favourite Quotes)

* Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - Leonardo Da Vinci


* Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler - Albert Einstein


* Three rules of work : out of clutter find simplicity; from discord find harmony; in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity - Albert Einstein


* A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life - Winston Churchill


* The simplest things are often the truest - Richard Bach


* Simply the thing that I am shall make me live - William Shakespeare


* For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong - Henry LouisMencken


* Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers - Herbert Hoover


* Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough - Charles Dudley Warner


* Seek simplicity but distrust it - Alfred North Whitehead


* The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak - Hans Hofmann


* To poke a woodfire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in this world - Charles Dudley Warner


* Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter - D.H.Monfleur


* Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated - Confucius


* The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich and creative, it isn't simple - Doris Janzen Longacre


* Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials - Lin Yutang



* How many things are there which I do not want - Socrates


* I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them - Sherwood Anderson



* Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion - The Talmond


* I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me - Linda McCartney


* Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity - Thor Heyerdahl


* Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature - Thomas Kempis


* It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences - Aristotle


* Simplicity is the peak of civilization - Jessie Sampter


* For fast acting relief; try slowing down - Lily Tomlin


* We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicitiies - Norman Vincent Peale


* If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need - Cicero


* If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can't buy.


* To know you have enough is to be rich - Lao Tzu


* If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life - Wu Men


* That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest - Henry David Thoreau


* You can't force simplicity; but you can invite it in by finding as much richness as possible in the few things at hand. Simplicity doesn't mean meagerness but rather a certain kind of richness, the fullness that appears when we stop stuffing the world with things - Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life



* I would like to live as a poor man with lots of money - Pablo Picasso


* Less is more - Mies van der Rohe


* For peace of mind we need to resign as the General Manager of the universe - Larry Eisenberg


* To simplify complications is the first essential of success - George Earle Buckle


* Part of the problem today is that we have a surplus of simple answers and a shortage of simple problems - Syracuse Herald


* He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness - Louise Beebe Wilder


* Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the 20th century - Alexander Solzhenitzyn


* Brevity is the soul of wit - William Shakespeare


* Brevity is the sister of talent - Anton Chekhov


* How difficult it is to be simple - Vincent van Gogh


* Simplify until one brushstroke represents a million pine needles - Andrew Hamilton


* The opposite of simplicity, as I understand it, is not complexity but clutter - Scott Russell Sanders


* Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance - Jon Franklin

* At first glance, simplicity can be deceiving - Milos Vujasinovic

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