“If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob".” IfsJoyAchieveBrokenSimplicityGlassesBlissPurityBobBroken Glass Author:Gyles Brandreth
“...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.” MindLongHardOpportunityIndividualSimpleGreaterAchieveExampleDesignHard WorkDisciplineEasierDegreesImpactSimplicityFasterRangeEfficientExecutionElegantAppreciatedEleganceIngenuityFeatsSimplificationSimplicity And Elegance Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.” EasyDifficultLinesPerfectMillionsAchieveStyleDesignApproachSimplicityDifficult Things Author:Keith Michael
“Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.” WantArtAgeActorsStuffCuttingAchieveSimplicityUselessGet BetterUseless Stuff Author:James Purefoy
“Spirituality is the science that teaches us how to achieve peace of mind and supreme satisfaction. Right now we are hankering after many, many things, but nothing we get satisfies us. Spirituality tells us that satisfaction can be found only if we lead a good and divine life-a life of simplicity, purity and humility.” IfsMindSpiritualityFoundTeachAchieveHumilityDivineRight NowSimplicitySatisfactionSupremePurityPeace Of MindDivine LifeHankering Author:Sri Chinmoy
“Like William Morris, Joe Hollis asks us to perceive paradise gardening as a juncture where artfulness directly serves life. In fact, we might go so far as to define this paradise as the place where art is indistinguishable from life, and where simplicity is codified as the best path for achieving happiness.” LifeArtFactsMightHappinessAsksPathAchieveArt IsSimplicityPerceiveParadiseGardeningMorrisJunctureAchieving Happiness Author:Jim Nollman
“I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.” HardNaturalEffortAchieveSimplicitySpontaneousGreat Effort Author:Eugene Green