Simplicity Quotes - Page 29

• Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.

  e. e. cummings

  Failing, Grows, Miraculous

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• He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.

  Louise Wilder

  Work, Aptitude, Idleness

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• Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce which makes it look like a pretentious dish on the buffet table at some fance dress ball?

  Marcel Boulestin

  Food, White, Dresses

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• It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.

  Alexis Soyer

  Simple, Quality, Matter

  Alexis Soyer (1959). “Soyer's cookery book”

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• Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

  Samuel Johnson

  People, Bears, Refinement

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.114

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• The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Important, Quality

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• Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated.

  Anne McKevitt

  Inspirational, Women, Successful

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• My policy is not how fast you play, it's not how much you play but it's what you play and where you play it ... play for the commercial side of the music ... the word I still use today is called "simplicity" .. it is so important that you use simplicity in your playing and in your music.

  James Burton

  Music, Play, Important

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• We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Heart, Organization

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• I still hate making pictures! And I don't like Hollywood any better. I detest the limelight and love simplicity, and in Hollywood the only thing that matters is the hullabaloo of fame. If Hollywood will let me alone to find my way without forcing me and rushing me into things, I probably will change my feelings about it. But at present Hollywood seems utterly horrible and interfering and consuming. Which is why I want to leave it as soon as I am able.

  Margaret Sullavan

  Hate, Rushing, Feelings

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• The soul of politeness is not a question of rules but of tranquility, humility, and simplicity. And in the taking of tea it finds perhaps its most perfect expression.

  Dorothea Johnson

  Humility, Expression, Perfect

  Dorothea Johnson (2002). “Tea and Etiquette”, p.43, Capital Books

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• Simplicity is the essence of universality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essence, Universality

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.87, Rajpal & Sons

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• The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Artist, Great Art, Thinker

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• Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Goal, Outcomes, Starting

  "Maurice Saatchi on his 'brutal simplicity of thought'" by Steve Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2010.

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• The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

  Auguste Rodin

  Simple

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• ...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Difficult, Software Design

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• Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

  Alan Kay

  Simple, Should, Programming

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• At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way - and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.

  Tony Hoare

  Determination, Learning, Code Quality

  "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Communications of the ACM 24, dl.acm.org. February 1981.

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• The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.

  Jonathan Ive

  Caring, Views, Quality

  Design Museum Interview, designmuseum.org. 2007.

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• There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

  Jonathan Ive

  Real, Simple, Style

  "Disclosure 02: Apple G5 Unpacked". HWM, May 2004.

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• For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

  Christopher Ricks

  Good Man, May, Characteristics

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• Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

  Bela Bartok

  Mean, Order, Ideas

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• Never overlook the power of simplicity.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful

  Twitter post from Dec 30, 2016

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• Simplicity is the trademark of GENIUS

  Robin Sharma

  Genius, Trademarks

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2016

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• I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I know is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to impose the roundness of a well-made play on reality produces a disaster. Life just isn't so, nor will it be made so.

  John M. Ford

  Reality, Play, Long

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