Top 100 Quotes About Simplify
#1. It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.
John Taylor
#2. In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
Plato
#3. The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
#5. graphics should not simplify messages. They should clarify them, highlight trends, uncover patterns, and reveal realities not visible before.
Alberto Cairo
#6. Simplify what you see until it's only bones, essence, soul. That's the only way to understand what something really is.
Leah Raeder
#8. Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
Ansel Adams
#9. Being able to change the lives of people around me motivates me. I always try to build technology and innovations that solve problems, simplify people's lives, and give others what they want.
Jeet Banerjee
#10. Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
Jon Oringer
#11. The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
Joyce Carol Oates
#12. Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax system. And only big corporations and wealthy individuals like Warren Buffett can take advantage of it. We need to simplify and flatten the code, get rid of all the loopholes.
Joe Walsh
#13. My task is to simplify and then go deeper, making a commitment to what remains. That's what I've been after. To care and polish what remains till it glows and comes alive from loving care.
Sue Bender
#15. Simplify, simplify. Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and reduce other things in proportion.
Henry David Thoreau
#16. Simplify, simplify. That was the secret to a happy life.
Dean Koontz
#17. What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.
William Albert Allard
#18. The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.
Criss Jami
#19. The task of a leader is to simplify. You should be able to explain where you need to go in two minutes.
Jeroen Van Der Veer
#20. In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
Barack Obama
#21. You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence.
Rico Lebrun
#22. I could not simplify myself.
(From the suicide note of a character named Nejdanov)
Ivan Turgenev
#24. So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.
Keith Rabois
#25. A careful observation of ourselves would immensely simplify life, and would make many things much clearer to us.
Aimee Dostoyevsky
#26. Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise ... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.
William Bernbach
#27. The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
Chinua Achebe
#28. I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
Arne Jacobsen
#29. Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.
Chester Barnard
#30. We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#31. Men made life far too difficult when they insisted on neatly categorizing their emotions. When emotions became complicated, they brooded and struggled so mightily in an attempt to simplify them again - when, given time, everything would sort itself out and slide into its place.
Meljean Brook
#32. Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
Therese Of Lisieux
#33. At the sub-atomic level, everything is complex. But you do not live at the sub-atomic level. You have the right to simplify. If you don't, you will go insane.
Matt Haig
#35. The more you summarize, the more order you put in, the less randomness. Hence the same condition that makes us simplify pushes us to think that the world is less random than it actually is. And
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#36. The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.
Cecelia Ahern
#37. At the end of the day, saving money is really about efficiency. You simplify your life, and its overall quality inevitably gets better.
Elizabeth Rogers
#38. I'd probably long ago have gone seven kinds of crazy, one for each day of the week, if I didn't simplify my life in every area where I do have some control.
Dean Koontz
#39. Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do.
Keith Rabois
#40. All the magic in the world can't simplify affairs of the heart. (Sophie's dad)
Rachel Hawkins
#41. Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.
Steve Maraboli
#42. When we simplify, we are attending to our minds. Clear
minds lead to creativity, vision, health, and productivity.
Angela Lynne Craig
#43. Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.
Hilary Mantel
#44. I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly.
Marco Rubio
#45. I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
James Dyson
#46. You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
Bill Hybels
#47. People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin
a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.
Robert A. Heinlein
#48. When you pray, pray so that you may know Him. When you seek to simplify, do it as a means of knowing Him more. When you surrender, or behave with humility or sacrifice, do it with the sole purpose in mind to know Him.
Charles R. Swindoll
#49. By all means, let us simplify the means of controlling time and the myriad details of our lives, but let us vigorously preserve our responsibility to direct our lives toward human accomplishment, rather than the pure accumulation of information.
Paul Rice
#50. Sex complicates, but it is the power of love to simplify.
Geoff Ryman
#51. I realize that labels are placed upon an individual to simplify him or her, but it is impossible to capture the essence of an individual by a few words.
Joanna Lohman
#52. A brand is a storehouse of trust that matters more and more as choices multiply. People want to simplify their lives.
Niall FitzGerald
#53. I don't think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whatever protection, rights and remedies a corporation wants, they should be put in terms that are understandable to the consumer.
Alan Siegel
#54. You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.
Keith Rabois
#55. People are weird. We do live on all levels at the same time and you can be fighting and flirting, and there can be fury and sexual tension. All that stuff can co-exist so it's just a testament to how complex we are. Or maybe it's a testament to how boringly we try and simplify everything.
Alice Eve
#58. When you own a lot of rubbish, it's tough to simplify your life.
Leon Logothetis
#59. Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.
David Gelernter
#60. To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.
Paul Rand
#62. Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.
David Allen
#63. Simplify your life and your mind. Think more of infinity and less of yourself.
Frederick Lenz
#64. Often I had to explain my reasoning to others. Every time it was exhausting to simplify my logic enough to make it understandable.
Estelle Ryan
#65. Simplify and focus on the good. The beauty of the journey ahead will flourish on its own.
Erik Tomblin
#66. To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.
M. Russell Ballard
#67. I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.
George Clooney
#68. I've seen too many people give up on love too fast. Walking away from relationships doesn't provide the hoped-for relief, bring solutions, or simplify life. Rather, it piles on more problems through the lingering resentment and finger-pointing.
Gary Chapman
#69. Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.
Eric Carle
#70. Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama
#71. ...don't simplify your life so you can do more. Simplify your life so you can focus on what matters - and you are what matters. Simplifying your life means focusing on who you are physically, emotionally, and spiritually. If you want to choose joy daily, that's the place to start.
Kay Warren
#72. They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.
Eric Carle
#73. When things go wrong, simplify.
Dan John
#74. There is a lot of interesting product coming to market already. Bags and bottles and cups and such made of potato starch and other fully biodegradable materials. In some sense, plastic is more chemically complex. We ought to be able to simplify.
Edward Norton
#75. Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency.
Cass Sunstein
#76. The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#77. Descriptive statistics exist to simplify, which always implies some loss of nuance or detail.
Charles Wheelan
#78. In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.
Nicholson Baker
#79. If you want to get a meaningful result: create something very complex, and then simplify it.
Gerry Geek
#80. A beautiful sidenote is, once the toxins and dramas are removed, you purify your life. Simplify and purify. What better way to live your life? Simple and pure!
Tony Curl
#81. To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?
Henry David Thoreau
#82. But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.
Barack Obama
#83. If you're under stress, your life is complex.
Simplify your life to reduce the stress.
Debasish Mridha
#84. How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling ... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.
Emily Carr
#85. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau
#86. To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.
Bruno Munari
#87. Trust me, you're not my first choice to fight next to, Sunshine, but as as much as it would simplify things, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I left you to her tender mercies.
(Seth to Keenan as he comes to his aid against Bananach)
Melissa Marr
#88. In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning.
Maimonides
#89. You want a better life? Simplify your life! Throw all the complexities from your life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.
August Krogh
#91. I don't categorize things merely to simplify my understanding. I'd rather delve into the process of unlearning.
Nikhil Sharda
#92. You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true.
Sarah Shahi
#93. A real Intelligence is an art to simplify complex matters without losing the integrity of that matter
Sumit Singh
#94. All too often, we sanitize and simplify forgiveness, when in fact it's an arduous, exhausting task---messy, risky, and unpredictable.
Marina Cantacuzino
#95. No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn't easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.
Ryan Holiday
#96. I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.
Mac Miller
#97. If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are. The closer your mind is to reality, the better your strategies, your responses in life.
Robert Greene
#98. I always run away from the simplest phrases because they never contain all of the truth. To me the truth is something which cannot be told in a few words, and those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
Anais Nin
#99. We're led to believe love is complicated. It's not the love that's complicated. It's all the crap that we attach to it and put in front of it that makes it difficult. If you're smart, you'll realize this before it's too late and simplify.
Alison G. Bailey
#100. It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexities like scales.
Celeste Ng
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