Simple And Complex Quotes by Dean Koontz, Sabrina Ward Harrison, Alfred North Whitehead, Alan Kay, Dee Hock, Steve Jobs and many others.
Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.
The truth is WE ALL ACHE. WE ALL HAVE GROWING PAINS and wonder if WE ARE OKAY adn enough + loved. THE THING IS – WE ARE. REALLY. WITHOUT the silver shoes and lepord print sheet. WE ARE ENOUGH WITHOUT all the things we buy to make us much more than we are or need to be we are simple and complex and rare as is.
The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.
Focus and simplicity…once you get there, you can move mountains.
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before… pictures which are simple and complex at the same time, which will amaze and overwhelm people … I must achieve this so that photography can begin to be considered a form of art.
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
