Quotes about Simplicity

I'm enjoying simplifying things.

Here again is one grand element of a preacher's success. He must labour by all means to be understood. It was a wise saying of Archbishop Usher, "To make easy things seem hard is every man's work; but to make hard things easy is the work of a great preacher.

One reason why birds and horses are happy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It's good to have a big — picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you're always living in the future, you're never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.

words easy to be understood often hit the mark, whereas high and learned words only pierce the air.

To do well at a few things, give up many things.

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

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple. —John C. Maxwell

to put it as philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson did, "To be simple is to be great.

Isabel Moore aptly stated, "Life is a one-way street. No matter how many detours you take, none of them leads back. And once you know and accept that, life becomes much simpler.