Simplicity Quotes - Page 11

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Simplicity reveals the pure beauty of life.

The fewer our wants the nearer we resemble the gods.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

Simplicity is the language of leadership.

The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.As long as this exists, and that should be forever, I know that there will be solace for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances. I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.

[I am] someone who represents a very complex country which insists on being simple-minded. And simplicity, it occurs to me, it has occurred to me more than once, in my somewhat stormy life, simplicity is taken to be a great American virtue, along with sincerity. And the result of this is, if you are simple-minded enough, you can become—I didn’t want to go that far [laughs]. And as long as you’re sincere in what you say, you haven’t got to know what you’re talking about. These are the American virtues—two of them anyway. One of the results of this is that immaturity is taken to be a virtue too.

Have a heart which does not trample down simplicity and humility.

Appreciate the simple and little things which are felt with the heart ~ they are the biggest things in life!

It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.

A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped for everything cannot be equally considered in a word he must be able to simplify his duties his business and his life.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

As a poet there is something about joy I find hard to express, whereas every other emotion is rather simple. For instance, you never feel so bad that you can't describe how bad you feel, but joy on the other hand is far too divine for human language.

We are not what we own; we are what we do, what we think and who we love.

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

I beseech you, little brothers, that you be as wise as brother Daisy and brother dandelion; for never do they lie awake thinking of tomorrow, yet they have gold crowns like kings and emperors or like Charlemagne in all his glory.

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.

Affected simplicity is refined imposture.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't.

Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed to be simple is to be great.

What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.

It is a tremendous gift to simply and truly listen to another.

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.

Simplicity is the friend of execution

people notice the most beautiful dress every person can wear,......... a "smile

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.