Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.
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What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.
Extreme right-wingers are known for giving God a bad name; extreme left-wingers are known for giving God a weak name. He's not as simple as conservative versus liberal, old versus new. His wings are balanced. God is both and neither.
The highest form of wisdom is often hidden in simplicity.
You are very strong if you're empowered by love and simplicity.
Perhaps success is best defined as maximizing the ratio of your rear wheel horsepower to your engine horsepower. Higher %, happier times.
The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.
I don__ bother with rhyme. RarelyAre two trees the same, one beside the other.I think and write like flowers have colorBut with less perfection in my way of expressing myselfBecause I lack the divine simplicityOf wholly being only my exterior.I see and I__ moved,Moved the way water runs when the ground is slopingAnd what I write is as natural as the rising wind...
Useless and precious objects. Taking up space. Taking up time.
Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.
Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.
The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.
Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things.
A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.("Three O'Clock")
Simplicity saves strength.
I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary
Dead__ not good, but at least it__ simple.
I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.