Top 100 Simple Is Quotes
#2. Simple things bring infinite pleasure. Yet, it takes us a while to realize that. But once simple is in, complex it out - forever.
Joan Marques
#3. As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.
Patrick Lencioni
#6. Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.
Carrie Newcomer
#7. Simple is boring, challenging is routine, impossible takes a little longer.
Kathleen Robertson
#9. Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
Paul Valery
#11. My fashion secret is "SIMPLE IS BETTER ... LESS IS MORE."
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#12. Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.
Rob Pike
#13. Simple is good," he said. "I've lived through complicated. Complicated hurts. Simple sustains you. Complicated makes you hungry for simple.
Amy Lane
#15. "Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.
Jason Fried
#16. Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable.
Paul Valery
#17. Simple is hard enough. Who needs complicated?
Teri Terry
#19. Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.
Van Morrison
#20. This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.
Elizabeth Scott
#21. Simple is the only way I can write.
Don Gibson
#22. These Days, Keeping Anything "Simple" Is The Most "Complex" Task To Do ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#23. Simple is the speech of truth.
Aeschylus
#24. We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.
Bryan Kest
#27. The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.
Terry Pratchett
#28. His story is simple, because simple is always best.
Stephen King
#30. A meal, however simple, is a moment of intersection. It is at once the most basic, the most fundamental, of our life's activities, maintaining the life of our bodies; shared with others it can be an occasion of joy and communion, uniting people deeply.
Elise M. Boulding
#32. Saying something is far too simple is a doubter's way or trying to make the world more complex so he won't have answers.
Adam P. Knave
#34. You don't have to speak monosyllables to be simple. What we mean by simple is finding the core of the idea.
Chip Heath
#35. To be simple is to be great. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thom S. Rainer
#36. Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.
Philip Selznick
#37. Making something simple is very difficult.
Jack Dorsey
#38. What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.
Ne-Yo
#39. The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#40. A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.
Sheryl Crow
#41. Learning to be complex is easy, but learning to be simple is most difficult.
Debasish Mridha
#42. Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him
this is all!
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
#43. I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.
Fred Rogers
#44. I don't think simple is an insult. Something that's really simple and great is probably harder to do than something more complex.
Ira Kaplan
#45. The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be.
Paul Fussell
#46. Too simple? An idea cannot be too simple. Simple is sometimes great, indeed. The Mahatma had a simple idea, although the British did not like it very much and put him in jail. Simple is good.
Ian B.G. Burns
#47. The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy.
Julie Powell
#49. Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.
Stefan Molyneux
#50. What I love is to cook for someone. To put a freshly made meal on the table, even if it is something very plain and simple . . . is a sincere expression of affection, it is an act of binding intimacy directed at whoever has a welcome place in your heart.
Katie Workman
#52. What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
Paul Valery
#53. Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven't been clever enough to reduce 'it' to its essence.
Phil Dourado
#54. To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#55. When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that?
Beth Johnson
#56. It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.
Linda Olsson
#57. We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what we do is determined by each one who sees and hears it.
John Cage
#58. I don't need to touch a woman to possess her; I can reel in souls with a simple look, a light touch, a well-timed smile. It's not magic. This, this is simple biology.
C.M. Stunich
#59. Simple music is the hardest music to play and blues is simple music.
Albert Collins
#60. I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.
Rokia Traore
#61. You can give your message to anybody, to everybody, from anywhere, from everywhere, in every way possible. The only thing you have to consider is this: Let your message be simple and understandable!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. Among the cognoscenti, though, it is not just about elaborate new flavors. I always consider the main test of ice cream to be the simple ice creams, especially vanilla. One should have fun when one eats, but it should also be seriously good.
Jeffrey Steingarten
#63. often thought that the simple fact, the mechanical fact, is no closer to the truth than a vague feeling, rumor, vision. Why repeat the facts - they cover up our feelings.
Svetlana Alexievich
#64. A lot of my old stuff is pretty simple. The new stuff is slightly more in-depth.
Matt Corby
#65. Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.
Arthur Miller
#66. In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.
Bryant McGill
#67. To receive this incredible gift all you have to do is follow four simple steps: 1) desire it; 2) know it; 3) grow in its virtue; 4) live it.
Joseph Iannuzzi
#68. Amber leaned into Gavin. Could it be that simple? Could love be the glue that keeps us on the path of righteousness?
"Love is always the answer.
Catherine Bybee
#69. And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped.
Anne Lamott
#70. What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.
Paulo Coelho
#71. Don't know why folks need diamonds and pearls, fur coats, first-class tickets, island adventures when simple shit like this is the best thing you could ever do.
Kristen Ashley
#72. The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
Iain McGilchrist
#74. In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
Paul Tsongas
#75. One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.
Arthur C. Clarke
#76. Complex carbohydrates are always best, except, again, after a workout where you could take simple (sugar) carbohydrates to get an insulin spike. But at other times doing this is not very beneficial because insulin is a storage hormone and it's going to shunt everything into the muscle.
Dorian Yates
#77. Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.
Jonathan Carroll
#78. Your writing should be filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities. Because that is life.
Christy Hall
#79. I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.
Chris Carmack
#80. The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love and comfort to yourself and the society.
Amit Ray
#81. What you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better.
Devon Michael
#82. How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
Laozi
#83. My purpose in public address and in speech is really encapsulated in three C's: clear, concise, correct. No overblowing rhetoric or anything like that. As simple as possible: clear, concise, correct.
Bob Sheppard
#84. There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the displacement of theory by historicism, nor a simple historicization of theory that exposes the contingent limits of its more generalizable claims.
Judith Butler
#85. When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It's yours.
Melody Beattie
#87. The Feeding the 5000 campaign is inviting food businesses to sign up to the principles of the Food Waste Pyramid tool, which illustrates a simple set of steps that any food business can take to avoid and reduce food waste.
Tristram Stuart
#88. Paul's lack of concern with the historical Jesus is not due, as some have argued, to his emphasis on Christological rather than historical concerns. It is due to the simple fact that Paul had no idea who the living Jesus was, nor did he care.
Reza Aslan
#89. The reality is more complicated, but as with most humans, the people on Earth prefer the simple answer.
John Scalzi
#90. ... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician's art: asking simple and elegant questions about our imaginary creations, and crafting satisfying and beautiful explanations. There is really nothing else quite like this realm of pure idea; it's fascinating, it's fun, and it's free!
Paul Lockhart
#91. The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.
Fred Rogers
#92. the fundamentally paradoxical ways that our very subjectivities are constituted: as cultural scripts, as texts written before us as us. It is confusing being a novel, a piece of fiction that considers itself a simple fact.
Whitley Strieber
#93. Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#94. The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points
his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.
Thomas Paine
#95. It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing.
John O'Donohue
#96. The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.
George Gilder
#97. The assumption that simple = stupid. But it's not true; indeed, I find from personal experience that the stupidest writers are the ones whose writing is positively baroque in form.
John Scalzi
#98. In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.
Larry Niven
#99. How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.
J.I. Packer
#100. Buddhists make it very simple for you to reach your heavenly reward. To reach Nirvana, all you have to do is live right, think right, and deny yourself just about everything.
Catherine Coulter
