Simplicity Quotes

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

Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.

True simplicity is tough; for the creator to provide simplicity, he/she has to bear the burden of complexity.

Getting organized is just rearranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic. It does nothing to stop the ship from sinking. Instead, simplify.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don’t put in the time or energy to get there.

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction.

People adopt robes in order to lead a simple life, but the noise of their simplicity prevents them from being simple.

Do not be too simple and too straight. Go to the jungle to see how the smooth and straight trees have been cut down mercilessly but the crooked ones stand unharmed.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Things have various qualities and the soul various tendencies, for nothing presented to the soul is simple, and the sould never applies itself simply to any subject. That is why the same thing makes us laugh and cry.

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

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

How to live simply? It is a big question. Let the answer come into the empty space that one must create in oneself. Trying to live simply is not the way—we don’t know how. Trying to fix it is filling the space with activity, when what is needed is to empty oneself and allow an answer to appear…

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

The whole essence of good drawing—and of good thinking, perhaps—is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.