Simplicity Quotes

If the plan is simple enough, everyone understands it, which means each person can rapidly adjust and modify what he or she is doing. If the plan is too complex, the team can’t make rapid adjustments to it, because there is no baseline understanding of it.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

Those who say they will forgive but can’t forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

The simple part is, every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future. If you change your thinking, you can change your life.