“Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.” WantWritingMayUseBigsSpeakEasyDifficultStyleFitMouthsTasksSimplicityPassagesTheatricalProprietyPompousCadenceDifficult TasksStilts Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?” ChildrenMatterEyeChristSimpleFocusFitCircumstancesOur ChildrenSimplicityFocusedFixedMidstSchedulesNeat Author:Ann Voskamp
“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?” ThinkingMayTwoTogetherWaterTreeWallFitFoundationGreenMiserySimplicityGentlemanDirtPalacesDwellingRefinedRefinementUnnoticedAlways WorkingMeadGreen TreesHousemaids Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)
“I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.” ThinkingWayWantLooksMeanStillsIdeasValuesFocusFitAddSimplicityFeaturesMentalityHaikuSingularity Author:Biz Stone
“I feel like we want women to be simpler, less complex, so we project a lot of versions of simplicity onto them to fit that.” FitSimplicity Author:Sarah Polley