Motivational Quotes

Simplicity

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Simplicity

I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.

Montesquieu, Charles De

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Churchill, Winston

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

Seabury, David

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

Buckle, George Earle

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.

Cooley, Charles Horton

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Oscar Wilde

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

Bailey, Philip James

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The complex develops out of the simple.

Wilson, Colin

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Seek simplicity but distrust it.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Gourmont, Remy De

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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Einstein, Albert

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I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Bennett, Tony

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Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.

Proverb, Chinese

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Henry David Thoreau

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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

Destouches, Philippe Nericault

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It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Lee, Bruce

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Delacroix, Eugene

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When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.

Clapiers, Luc De

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I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Moses, Grandma

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The most complex things are the simplest.

Celeste, Agni

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Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

James, Henry

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Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.

Alford

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Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Collier, Robert

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See it big, and keep it simple.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Confucius

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The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Horton, Doug

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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Ruskin, John

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The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

Wilde, Oscar

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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lao-tzu

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It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Fillmore, Charles

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Churchill, Winston

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The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.

Stuberg, Robert

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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

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Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Johnson, Samuel

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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Einstein, Albert

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I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.