Elegance In Simplicity Quotes

#1. Some things just work. There is elegance in simplicity.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

Christian Dior

#3. While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

Francis Crick

#4. Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Mark Hyman

#5. To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

Don Altman

#6. Elegance is achieved when, having discarded all superfluous things, we discover simplicity and concentration.

Paulo Coelho

#7. 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.

William P. Alford

#8. Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because thy require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#9. Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Girolamo Savonarola

#10. True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Henry Ward Beecher

#11. When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.

Michio Kaku

#12. In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#13. The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.

Mary McCarthy

#14. I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

Donald Norman

#15. My definition of beauty is simplicity, elegance, and sensuality. I think that when a woman is in harmony with herself and remains true to her values, she will glow naturally.

Megan Fox

#16. They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and to be rich not wealthy. They let the sacred and unconscious bloom amidst the common, rendering it all extraordinary.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#17. One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that ... a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis ... seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity, or elegance.

Murray Gell-Mann

#18. Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance.

Bill Blass

#19. ...a very costly simplicity, one can notice, but not the elegance of a woman who gives much thought to her clothes; rather that of one who knows she can make any rag attractive and does it unconsciously."

Excerpt From: Ayn Rand. "Night of January 16th.

Ayn Rand

#20. Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

Giorgio Armani

#21. Simplicity," I said, "is true elegance. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed. Her clothing should be seen only after she herself is.

C.W. Gortner