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• I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Jeans, Simplicity

• Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
  Look to this Day!
  For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
  In its brief course lie all the
  Verities and Realities of your Existence.
  The Bliss of Growth,
  The Glory of Action,
  The Splendor of Beauty;
  For Yesterday is but a Dream,
  And To-morrow is only a Vision;
  But To-day well lived makes
  Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
  And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
  Look well therefore to this Day!
  Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

  Kalidasa

  Topics in Beauty, Dream, Life, Vision, Wisdom

  Tags in Awareness, Impermanence, Beginning, Simplicity, Creed, Credo

• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common–this is my symphony.

  William Henry Channing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simplicity, Creed, Credo, Fashion

• However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Ideals, Life

  Tags in Poverty, Simplicity, Credo, Creed
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  In all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Excellence, Simplicity

• 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.

  Frederic Chopin

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Simplicity, Played

• And yes, there’s a simplicity to writing books because you’re not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books, Simplicity

• I always go for simplicity.

  David Bailey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simplicity

• The spirit’s foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

  George Santayana

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spirit, Simplicity, Sophistication

• Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

  George Sand

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Simplicity

• I’ve always liked simplicity.

  Marissa Mayer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simplicity, Liked

• Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Real, Things, Simplicity
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  Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.

  Topics in Chinese Proverbs

  Tags in Simplicity, Standing

• In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simplicity, Mind

• The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Noble, Simplicity

• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Absolute, Simplicity

• As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.

  Sam Abell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simplicity, Pleasure

• Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simplicity

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Aware, Simplicity

• 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.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Topics in Age, Success

  Tags in Simplicity, Defect