#simplicity

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#down #ideas #itself #jot #just

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#i #lot #me #money #need

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. ↗

— Thomas More

#day #every #every day #home #importance

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#child #gentle #man #manners #mild

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. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#clutter #consequence #describing #essentially #just

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. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#analyze #aware #become #climax #coming

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#earth #man #nature #purity #simplicity

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. ↗

— George Santayana

#foe #man #simplicity #sophistication #spirit

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#character #french #german #grammatical #illustrate