Top 28 Quotes About Making Things Simpler
#1. The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.
Bill Jensen
#2. Now he had answers, but they weren't doing what answers were supposed to do: they weren't making things simpler or easier. They weren't helping.
Lev Grossman
#3. I don't have many Russian friends. My childhood friends are dead - either from bad health, or they died in perestroika.
Leon Max
#4. Remarkably, the light didn't shine on things but through them. Through the grass. Through the trees. Through the wall. And through the people who were gathered there. There
John Burke
#6. Life sure is easier when you're rich."
"And a natural born charmer. Don't forget that part."
"How could I?" she retorted. "It's the only thing we have in common.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#7. Is there a God? Is there an afterlife? ... I think that now, more so than ever, people are much more willing to take the time and question what's out there.
Ryan Buell
#8. We're going to try to do more to communicate the value of activation to customers in addition to making the process simpler and more consistent.
Steve Ballmer
#9. Managing time is an essential part of making life simpler. Time should be valued and treated as the limited resource it is. Through prioritizing and planning, time management becomes an integral part of day to day activities.
Susan Stovall
#10. Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.
Jack Welch
#11. Climate is a global issue. Coal is still the energy that is being used more than anything else to make electricity. The United States is using less as we're turning more to gas. But, around the world, that's what they're using.
Ian Bremmer
#12. An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward De Bono
#13. Plato complains that whereas in simpler matters - like shoe-making - we think only a specially-trained person will serve our purpose, in politics we presume that every one who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state.
Will Durant
#14. I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
Anne Bradstreet
#15. Naturally they don't eschew such simpler pleasures as love-making, sea-bathing, going to the pictures.
Albert Camus
#16. I've long been interested in the tale-within-a-tale phenomenon. I'm familiar with many tales which use this framework or the device of many people in one place, telling their stories, or multiple storytellers commenting on each others' stories with their own.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#17. The world would be a much simpler place if one could bring about social change merely by making a logically consistent moral argument.
Peter Singer
#18. We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.
Marjane Satrapi
#19. Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp ...
Georgia O'Keeffe
#20. If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. Classes and routines are first and foremost intellectual tools for reducing complexity. If they're not making your job simpler, they're not doing their jobs.
Steve McConnell
#22. Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he's sitting up in bed. But he is not comfortable or natural here
every muscle in his arm stands out. it is a stupid thing for me to think when I am one hundred feet off the ground.
Veronica Roth
#23. Ugh!" She threw her hands in the air. "No? No? That's your favorite word, isn't it?
"It's a classic," he told her calmly, his composure only succeeding in making her more irate. "So much simpler than, say, 'ain't gonna happen' or 'not a chance in hell.
Julie Ann Walker
#24. One must look at what is needed rather than what is wanted. This is the most critical point in making life easier and simpler - need versus want.
Glen Mizrahi
#25. By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.
Mitt Romney
#26. In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its opposite, which is ambiguity and multi-valence.
Kirk Varnedoe
#27. The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable.
Robert Greenberg
#28. ... It's like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.
M T Anderson
