Quotes about Simplicity

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear. There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness.

I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before.

Oh, blessed are the simple rich, for they inherit the earth!

I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos.

I don't understand why everyone fights for power, money, fame.

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Men invent means and methods of coming at God's love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God's presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him?

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.