Simplicity Quotes

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  Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Simple

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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  You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  Vernon Howard

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• When the solution is simple, God is answering.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Positive

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• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Inspiring, Life Changing

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• Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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  All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Hope, Freedom

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Wisdom, Writing

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• Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Greatness, Perfection

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• Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

  Alan Perlis

  Simple Life, Doe, Pragmatists

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• Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.

  Duane Elgin

  Appreciation, Mean, Degrees

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• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Scales, Humans

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.98, Vintage

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• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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• As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

  Sam Abell

  Photography, Special, Cameras

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• Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Hype, Mistress

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.432, Booklassic

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• It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Life, Marriage

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• I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.

  Bobby Brown

  Being Yourself, Inspire, Just Being

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• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

  Sam Ewing

  Success, Business, Simple

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• There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Black And White, White, Black

  "Interview: Joseph Gordon-Levitt on 'The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories'". Interview with Yvonne Villarreal, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 5, 2011.

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• Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

  Jonathan Ive

  Philosophical, Simple, Purpose

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• Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

  Stephen Leacock

  Writing, Ideas, Trouble

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.194, University of Toronto Press

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• The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Life, Being Sad

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.51, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

  Alexander Pope

  Children, Men, Affection

  'Epitaph: On Mr Gay in Westminster Abbey' (1733)

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• Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Contentment, Rich Poor

  1603-4 Iago to Othello. Othello, act 3, sc.3, l.176-8.

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