Best 1007 quotes in «simplicity quotes» category

I want people to enjoy the simplicity in the natural.

Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information. Typography should not vary widely in an interface.

Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life.

Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.

Knitwear can play a vital part in layering. The simplicity of a lightweight cardigan makes it one of the best ways to layer outfits. I love granddad cardis for winter, worn over a vintage lace shirt, waistcoat and full skirt with slouchy boots.

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

Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

Live simply that others might simply live.

Live simply so others may simply live.

Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.

Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it's the you inside that counts.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.

Maybe you have thought that doing... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass.

Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.

Most of us would agree that the important thing about Jesus is not his supposed miraculous birth or the claim that he was resurrected from death, but rather how he lived. The power of his love, the penetrating simplicity of his teachings, and the force of his example of service on behalf of the disenfranchised and downtrodden are what is crucial.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

My motto is that I enjoy life. I think there's a kind of simplicity to that way of thinking.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what you're writing, then everything else you do is superfluous. Irrelevant. If any thoughtful, curious reader finds what I do impenetrable, I've failed.

Nature loves simplicity and unity.

My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.

My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

Never overlook the power of simplicity.

Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?

One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.

O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.

One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

One of the main challenges, for me, has been to keep simplicity in its place. It’s only a tool. It’s not the destination, it’s the vehicle that gets us there

One remarkable feature of the devotional masters is the incredible sense of uniform witness in the midst of such diverse personalities... and the necessity of Christian simplicity is one of their most consistent themes.

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.