Quotes on Simple Things

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

I think track records are very important. If you start early trying to have a perfect one in some simple thing like honesty, you're well on your way to success in this world.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land. Imagine if we could eat every meal knowing these few simple things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what it really cost. If that was the reality, then every meal would have the potential to be a perfect meal.

I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head; I've still got to do the simple things in life.

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

Live simply so that others may simply live.