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Quotes about simplicity
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. (Alford )
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. (Alford )
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in --telephonic, technological and relational --to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work. (Alford )
What is conceived well is expressed clearly. (Alford )
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. (Alford )
To simplify complications is the first essential of success. (Alford )
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. (Alford )
The most complex things are the simplest. (Alford )
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. (Alford )
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. (Alford )
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings. (Alford )
Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. (Alford )
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect. (Alford )
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. (Alford )
A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. (Alford )
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it. (Alford )
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. (Alford )
When the solution is simple, God is answering. (Alford )
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. (Alford )
God always takes the simplest way. (Alford )
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. (Alford )
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. (Alford )
Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. (Alford )
It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way. (Alford )
It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom. (Alford )
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