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• To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

  George Earle Buckle

  Success, Writing, Plain And Simple

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• If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to have joy and offer joy to the world at large, then meditation is the only answer.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Meditation, Joy, Answers

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• If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, This is the best season of your life.

  Wumen Huikai

  Simple, Simplicity, Mind

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• I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.

  Edward Albee

  Easier, Ifs

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.51, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

  Charles Mingus

  Creativity, Simple, Plain Language

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Hands, Design

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1925). “Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete 1925 "Wendingen" Series”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Letting Go, Cutting

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• Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

  Wole Soyinka

  Firsts, Facts, Evolution

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Jan 23, 2015

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• Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

  Anais Nin

  Truth, Reality, Expansion

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• When things go wrong, simplify.

  Dan John

  When Things Go Wrong

  Dan John (2009). “Never Let Go”, p.104, On Target Publications

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• The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

  Criss Jami

  Simple, Roles, Genius

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.94, Criss Jami

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• Focus on all four of your net worth factors: increasing your income, increasing your savings, increasing your investment returns, and decreasing your cost of living by simplifying your lifestyle.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Money, Cost Of Living

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 29, 2015

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• A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational Life, Simple, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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• You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.

  Keith Rabois

  Needs, Metrics, Company

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate". Keith Rabois' "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify.”  Or, as Plato wrote, “In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

  Duane Elgin

  Plato, Order, Everyday

  Duane Elgin (2010). “Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Art is art. Everything else is everything else.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Art, Avant Garde, Painter

  Ad Reinhardt, Marlborough Gallery (1970). “Ad Reinhardt: black paintings, 1951-1967”

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• From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

  N. T. Wright

  Two, America, Issues

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• Three Tips: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Simplicity, Three

  Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger (2006). “Prioritizing Web Usability”, p.23, Pearson Education

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• The model I like to sort of simplify the notion of what goes on in a market for common stocks is the pari-mutuel system at the racetrack. If you stop to think about it, a pari-mutuel system is a market. Everybody goes there and bets and the odds change based on what's bet. That's what happens in the stock market.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Odds, Goes On

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• The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

  Chinua Achebe

  Ideas, Diversity, Problem

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• We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem!

  Chesty Puller

  Military, Marine, Usmc

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• Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Keys, Simplicity, Balance

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• You want a better life? Simplify your life! Throw all the complexities from your life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Want, Complexity

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• There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

  Gustav Stickley

  Beauty, Ideas, House

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