Quotes about Simplicity

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

Character Ethic as the foundation of success—things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.

The main thing Is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Character Ethic as the foundation of success - things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule. Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is representative of that literature. It is, basically, the story of one man's effort to integrate certain principles and habits deep within his character.

In everything, love simplicity.

A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.

Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

One should accept things as they are and not try to lift them to impossible heights; only if you let them be will they reveal their true worth.