Quotes tagged ‘Simplicity’

“I just have three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.”

— Conscious Arrival, instagram.com

“Endeavor to unite the simplicity of children with the prudence of adults.”

— Padre Pio, ncregister.com

“Finding the truth can be simple. It’s accepting the simplicity that’s hard.”

— Cameron Litvack, Dr. Susan Langdon, Anne Heche, imdb.com

“Strange, the things you remember. Single images and feelings that stay with you down through the years. Like the moment I'd realized I'd never owned a vase. That I'd never lived in any place long enough to justify having such a simple thing. And how at that moment, I wanted nothing so much in all th…”

— Ronald D. Moore, Claire Randall, Caitriona Balfe, imdb.com

“We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.”

— Wallace Stegner, amazon.com

“I’ve come back to this slide over and over for inspiration when thinking about new concepts or product ideas. It’s a great exercise in clarity. Can I boil down the idea into something as simple as a column and a row?”

— Jason Fried, m.signalvnoise.com

“Gotta keep it simple, motherfucker. Gotta learn to walk before you run, man.”

— Tom Kapinos, Ron Balls, Jacob Ming-Trent, imdb.com

“Wealth and fame come from asserting your individuality. Peace comes from knowing there is no such thing.”

— Jim Carrey, twitter.com

“The simplest means are those which best enable an artist to express himself. His means of expression must derive almost all of necessity from his temperament.”

— Henri Matisse, amazon.com

“Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects. When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that’s when the details take on larger meanings.”

— David Byrne, amazon.com

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

“I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”

— Daphne du Maurier, amazon.com

“I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.”

— Gertrude Stein, en.wikiquote.org

“There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.”

— Anton Chekhov, en.wikiquote.org

“The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.”

— Anton Chekhov, en.wikiquote.org

“We are all so simple at heart that become unfathomable to one another.”

— Gore Vidal, amazon.com

“Yes, everything is simple. It’s people who complicate things.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

“I am a complicated person with a simple life.”

— Charlotte Eriksson, goodreads.com

“The best things in life are simple. Simple things work. They don’t foul up. It’s the complicated things that get twisted around on you.”

— Lois Duncan, amazon.com

“I like cancelled plans. And empty bookstores. I like rainy days and thunderstorms. And quiet coffee shops. I like messy beds and over-worn pajamas. Most of all, I like the small joys that a simple life brings.”

— Anonymous, c0ntemplations.tumblr.com