#simplicity

"It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple."

"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."

"Like all magnificent things, it's very simple."

"It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are."

"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."

"Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves."

"Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it."

"Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."

"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."

"A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)"

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

"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses."

"Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them."

"The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day"

"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials."

"They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple."

"People who pride themselves on their "complexity"and deride others for being "simplistic"should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth."

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."