Real Simplicity Quotes

#1. There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

Jonathan Ive

#2. I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

Gertrude Stein

#3. When you're given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. You hear women talk about it all the time, like when you turn thirty, 'That's when it all came together for me, girl.' Honestly, that's what I feel.

Ciara

#5. It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

Alexis Ohanian

#6. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

Anne Bishop

#7. In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

Constantin Brancusi

#8. It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime.

George Lucas

#9. Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

Constantin Brancusi

#10. It was a view I never tired of, especially

Lucy Diamond

#11. As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation was too high and offered fewer and fewer real rewards, psychological and spiritual.

Duane Elgin

#12. I think tobacco and alcohol warnings are too general. They should be more to the point: 'People who smoke will eventually cough up small pieces of lung.' ... And 'Warning!! Alcohol will turn you into the same jerk your father was.'

George Carlin

#13. Learning sound layout principles is best accomplished in the light of simplicity... unencumbered by embellishment that hides the real meat of the matter.

Mike Stevens

#14. Keep it simple and keep it real. The more basic we see our connection to God and Spirit, the easier it is to feel like you're a part of it.

Jim Fargiano

#15. Learn to understand the real beauty of simplicity.

Christoph Von Schmid

#16. Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#17. I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

Harper Lee

#18. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.

Anne Lamott

#19. The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things that have the power required for the job while maintaining understandabili ty, the feeling of control, and the pleasure of accomplishment.

Donald A. Norman

#20. The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#21. If you have clutter in your real life, your tangible life, then it really adds to the emotional clutter in your mind.

Giuliana Rancic

#22. The first thing that success would teach you is to differentiate the good and bad people around you

Deepika Muthusamy

#23. Only real good Energy has Good Results.
I serve by modesty and simplicity,
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
September 25, 2016

Petra Hermans

#24. Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#25. Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it.

John Wayne

#26. I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.

Norm MacDonald

#27. It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

C.S. Lewis

#28. How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

William Wordsworth

#29. Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

Charles R. Swindoll

#30. The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.

Robert Orben

#31. I tend to believe simple things are the real things.

Marty Rubin

#32. Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.

Herbert Read

#33. Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.

Kathy Gottberg

#34. Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#35. Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

Robert James Waller

#36. The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...

Jean Baudrillard