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“The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.”

Mean Meditation Ego Instinct Simplicity Apes

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings

“A line partakes of the simplicity of a point more than does a surface; and a surface [partakes thereof more] than does a material object-as was evident. From this consideration of a point and a material object elevate yourself unto a likeness of True Being and of the universe; and by means of [this] quite clear symbolism [of a point] make a conjecture about what has been said.”

Mean Doe Has Beens Said Universe Lines Clear Objects Materials Simplicity Surface Consideration Evident Symbolism Conjecture

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“Simplicity is really hard.”

Hard Simplicity

Author:Jonathan Ive

“Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.”

Men World Should Whole Turns Cases Wise Truth Is Pure Creatures Simplicity Whole World Spares Invincible Constancy Bending

Author:John Calvin

“The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.”

Art Ends Matter Lasts Numbers Gone Difficulty Notes Strive Finals Simplicity Endless Charm Disappointed Strife Seals

Author:Frederic Chopin

“There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth.”

Wells Wealth Greatness Goodness Simplicity

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“If simplicity were easy, we would see more of it.”

Ifs Easy Simplicity

Book:The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm

Source: The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm

“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.”

World Beautiful Walks Simplicity Beautiful Things Simple Life Simple Things Simple Living Frugality

Author:George Santayana

“All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity”

People Knows Simple Know How Genius Simplicity Core

Author:Martin E. Marty

“We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are consumed in making a living and rarely in living itself. It takes a lot of courage for a man to declare, with clarity and simplicity, that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.”

Men Doe Enough Seems Life Is Purpose Energy Enjoy Modern Duty Fellows Simplicity Obligation Clarity Curious Purpose Of Life Fellow Man Consumed Neurotic Making A Living

Book:The pleasures of a nonconformist

Source: The pleasures of a nonconformist

“Pass through knowledge to arrive at simplicity.”

Author:Trevanian

“Very well, then: why are you attached to any one book, or to the words and ways of one saint when he himself tells you to let them go and walk in simplicity? To hang on to him as if to make a method of him is to contradict him and to go in the opposite direction to the one in which he would have you travel.”

Ifs Way Wells Book Walks Opposites Method Simplicity Saint

Author:Thomas Merton

“Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity.”

World Weapons Simplicity Complexity

Author:Price Pritchett

“Simplicity not simplistic.”

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.”

Men Simplicity Complexity

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit.”

Spirit Walks Simplicity Conquer Distraction

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.”

Simplicity Acknowledge Elegance

Author:Giorgio Armani

“What is more simple than to believe in God? Its very simplicity argues the case.”

Believe Simple Cases Simplicity Arguing Believe In God

Author:James Cook

“Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.”

World Self Style Particular Source Balance Discipline Flow Breaths Simplicity Flight Reasonable Composer Sensibility Self Discipline Spontaneity Provinces Refinement Sophistication

Author:Aaron Copland

“Simplicity can intensify the emotion.”

Emotion Simplicity

Author:Emmylou Harris

“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.”

Want Art Age Actors Stuff Cutting Achieve Simplicity Useless Get Better Useless Stuff

Author:James Purefoy

“Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment.”

Environment Design Evolution Rewards Simplicity Efficiency Matching Prisms

Author:Blake Crouch

“Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”

Should Firsts Doe Evolution First Time Built Simplicity Complexity Hinder Top Down Optimization

Author:Alan Perlis

“Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys Him.”

Enjoy Simplicity Purity Reach Out

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“It's simplicity itself that its future will be way worse than its past.”

Way Past Simplicity

Author:Charlie Munger

“Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.”

People Way May Too Much Simplicity Billions Way Forward

Author:Terence McKenna

“Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time or space, can be described as a series of overlapping sine waves of multiple frequencies and various amplitudes.”

Space Series Complexes Simplicity Wave Patterns Various Familiar Explanation Multiple Frequency Theorems Overlapping Fourier

Author:Bruce Hood

“The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.”

Simplicity Complexity

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Seek simplicity, then distrust.”

Simplicity Distrust

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“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.”

Ifs Mind Spirituality Found Teach Achieve Humility Divine Right Now Simplicity Satisfaction Supreme Purity Peace Of Mind Divine Life Hankering

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Talking about music and talking about drums brings me back to my beginning and the simplicity, and the excitement about trying to play something and see if it works for your band.”

Ifs Trying Play Talking Band Simplicity Excitement

Author:Patty Schemel

“Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.”

Purpose Simple Objects Products Consequence Philosophical Simplicity Absence Describing Clutter Simplicity In Design Product Design

Author:Jonathan Ive

“A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.”

“Unity in diversity is India's strength. There is simplicity in every Indian. There is unity in every corner of India. This is our strength.”

Diversity India Unity Simplicity Corners Indian Unity In Diversity

Author:Narendra Modi

“I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.”

Needs Littles Sometimes Kids Actors Acting Too Much Scene Okay Simplicity Reminders Climax

Author:Hugh Jackman

“The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.”

May Home Seems Lasts Building Simplicity Coming Home Continuity Plasticity

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.”

“The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.”

Feels Whole Form Simple Quality Simplicity Concentration Components Gentleness Fearlessness Simple Happiness

Book:How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy

Source: How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy

“Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.”

Grows Greater Simplicity Complexity

Author:Brian Eno

“Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural potency and an unmatched affinity. He is a unique stylist in our music.”

Natural Alive Player Sweet Approach Unique Stress Jazz Notes Simplicity Tone Glorious Affinity Stylist Potency

Author:Oscar Peterson

“I don't really talk about my personal life and I don't really talk about my relationships. I'm not a big partier. I like the simplicity of my life, and I've chosen the kind of life I really want to live. I don't think my life is boring at all.”

Thinking Want Kind Bigs Life Is Simplicity Boring Chosen Personal Life

Author:Charlize Theron

“Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am.”

Ideas Weakness Simplicity Assets

Author:Cory Arcangel

“Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.”

Hundred Angel Simplicity Cleverness

Author:Ambrose of Optina

“The simplest things are often the truest.”

Simple Environment Simplicity Simplest Simple Life Simplify Simple Things Truest Minimalism Simple Living Minimalist Less Is More Living A Simple Life Simplicity In Art

Author:Richard Bach

“We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.”

Simplicity Hunger Nobility

Book:Uncommon Sense

Source: Uncommon Sense

“Simplicity is all. Simple logic, simple arguments, simple visual images. If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument. There's nothing long-winded about 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'.”

Ifs Long Simple Argument Logic Simplicity Phrases Visuals Crisps Visual Images

Author:Maurice Saatchi

“There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing when you're younger as an artist you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.”

Thinking Ideas Artist Certain Quality Notes Simplicity Complexity

Author:Patrick Stump

“Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.”

Mind Ideas Soul Simple Effects Simplicity Commerce Communion Refined Splendor Refining

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“Simplicity is the key to what I do.”

Keys Simplicity

Author:Lionel Richie

“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts