{"quotes":[{"text":"Simplicity and humility are the flowers of greatness.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish-mridha","greatness","humility","inspirational","philosophy","simplicity"],"id":361,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Strategy is for making progress and progress is in simplicity.","author":"Pearl Zhu","tags":["progress","simplicity","strategy"],"id":497,"author_id":"Pearl+Zhu"},{"text":"At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.","author":"Patrick White","tags":["arrogance","simplicity"],"id":1196,"author_id":"Patrick+White"},{"text":"A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.('Three O'Clock').","author":"Cornell Woolrich","tags":["brain","concussion","simplicity"],"id":2364,"author_id":"Cornell+Woolrich"},{"text":"The key to creating a successful system is to make it as uncomplicated as possible.","author":"Geralin Thomas","tags":["organizing-tips","self-help","simplicity"],"id":2788,"author_id":"Geralin+Thomas"},{"text":"For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament. Thus we call the Shaker staircase in Pleasant Hill elegant because we know--without ever having constructed one ourselves--that a staircase is a site complexity, and that combinations of treads, risers and banisters rarely approach the sober intelligibility of the Sharkers' work. We deem a modern Swiss house elegant because we not how seamlessly its windows have been joined to their concrete walls, and how neatly the usual clutter of construction has been resolved away. We admire starkly simple works that we intuit would, without immense effort, have appeared very complicated. (p 209).","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["architecture","complexity","complicated","construction","design","elegance","intuition","simplicity"],"id":3289,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed.","author":"Zhuangzi","tags":["govern","simplicity","taoism","vastness"],"id":3402,"author_id":"Zhuangzi"},{"text":"Simplicity is one complication that I can live without.","author":"Anthony T.Hincks","tags":["complication","life","live","live-without","philosophy","simple","simplicity"],"id":3476,"author_id":"Anthony+T.Hincks"},{"text":"Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.","author":"Hippocrates","tags":["integration","nature","simplicity"],"id":3633,"author_id":"Hippocrates"},{"text":"God wants the simplicity and accessibility of Jesus Christ to be your main quality.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["accessibility","god","jesus","quality","simplicity"],"id":3698,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":723,"pages":73,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}