“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.”
— Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.”
— C.W. Ceran
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
— Hans Hofmann
“Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.”
— Elise Boulding
“You know you’ve achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.”
— Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
— John Lennon
“We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone…and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.”
— Sandra Day O’Connor
“Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named not good.”
— John Milton
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
— Herman Melville
“Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.”
— Cherrie Moraga
“Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.”
— Pat Riley
“All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.”
— Anthony Robbins
“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don’t have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you’ll stop at the first giant hurdle.”
— George Lucas
“Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate”
— William Arthur Ward
“Nearly all men can stand the test of adversity, but if you really want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people’s in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.”
— Flannery O’Connor (in her short story Good Country People)
“Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.”
— Joyce Brothers