Simplicity Quotes

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself.