Simplification Quotes

• Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Wisdom, Lying

  "Encore : A Continuing Anthology‬". Book by Smith Dent, p. 309, March 1945.

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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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• Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Design Process, Poor Quality

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• Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

  John Maeda

  Meaningful, Simplicity, Design

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2013

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• Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

  Thomas Mann

  Order, Simplicity, Steps

  Thomas Mann (1969). “The Magic Mountain”, Vintage

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• Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

  Karl Popper

  Funny, Art, Crazy

  1982 Quoted in the Observer,1Aug.

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• Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Simplicity, May, Facts

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.16, Random House

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• My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.

  Joan Miro

  Character, Artist, Color

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• We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider

  Kay Bojesen

  Everyday Things, Design, Important

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• It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.

  Richard Neal

  Three, Alternatives, Bills

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• The simplification of anything is always sensational.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sensational

  "Varied Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational Life, Simple, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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• The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Mulling Over, Inner Peace, Steps

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

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• I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, People, Battle

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• We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

  Richard Neal

  America, Working Together, Desire

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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, Simplicity

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

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• There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

  Gustav Stickley

  Beauty, Ideas, House

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• You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Order, Enemy, Firsts

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• Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

  Greg Lake

  Dignity, Comeback, Defeat

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• People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

  Young-Ha Kim

  People, Meaning Of Life, Pruning

  Young-ha Kim (2007). “I Have the Right to Destroy Myself”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.

  Tom Sutcliffe

  Fishing, Rivers, Lakes

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• Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Simple, Complexity, Sophistication

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Documentary, 1977.

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• Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mind, Use, Unqualified

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man's relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man.

  Clarence Manion

  Father, Men, Self

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• Government systems suffer from two weaknesses. They are complex. And they are slow. We need to change this. Our systems need to be made sharp, effective, fast and flexible. This requires simplification of processes and having trust in citizens. This needs a Policy Driven State.

  Narendra Modi

  Two, Government, Suffering

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