Simplify 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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• 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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• To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mean, Doe

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• As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Peace, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.88, BookBaby

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• The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Beautiful, Art, Block

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1902). “The Philistine”

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• Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Struggle, Past, Simple

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• In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

  Plato

  Order, Simplicity, Everyday

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• To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.

  Bruno Munari

  Simple, Able, Complicated

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• Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

  Eric Carle

  Life, Art, Sunset

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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

  "The 13 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 5, 2011.

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

  Mason Cooley

  Wisdom, Intelligence

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• The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Thinking, Needs

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.197, Da Capo Press

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• Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.

  Brian Tracy

  Jobs, Tasks, Looks

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.5, Jaico Publishing House

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• Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Life, Simple, Greed

  Edwin Way Teale (1953). “Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year”

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• An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Simple, People

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• Simplify, simplify, simplify.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau (1937). “The selected works of Thoreau”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Knows

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Games, Coaching

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• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Simplify, then add lightness.

  Colin Chapman

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

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• My goal is to simplify complexity.

  Jack Dorsey

  Goal, Complexity

  Interview with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. January 10, 2011.

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• The more I simplify my life, the happier I feel.

  Bradford Winters

  Leadership, Feels

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• What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

  William Albert Allard

  Photography, Simplicity, Important

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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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