If a perpetual talk about one’s own robustness leads to being less robust, it is even more true that a perpetual talking about one’s own simplicity leads to being less simple… they would make us simple in the unimportant things, but complex in the important things. They would make us simple in the things that […]
Simple - Simplify Quotes
The only simplicity that matters is the simplicity of the heart. If that be gone, it can be brought back by no turnips or cellular clothing; but only by tears and terror and the fires that are not quenched. If that remain, it matters very little if a few Early Victorian armchairs remain along with […]
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
If a man is coming across the sea to kill you, you do everything in your power to make sure he dies before finishing his journey. This may be difficult, it may be painful, but at least it is simple.
They criticize me for harping on the obvious – If all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
If you want to win a case, paint the Judge a picture and keep it simple.
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach’s B Minor Mass.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
