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  • #1
    Bruce Lee
    “It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”
    Bruce Lee

  • #2
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Favorite Poems

  • #3
    Clarice Lispector
    “I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort”
    Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

  • #4
    John Maeda
    “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
    John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity

  • #5
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #6
    Confucius
    “A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.”
    Confucius

  • #7
    Robert James Waller
    “Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.”
    Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

  • #8
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #9
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    Aristotle

  • #12
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #13
    Alexandre Dumas
    “There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
    " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
    Alexandre Dumas

  • #14
    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    Confucious

  • #15
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #16
    Heraclitus
    “Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
    Heraclitus, Fragments

  • #17
    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
    Leo F. Buscaglia

  • #18
    Thomas Jefferson
    “Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.”
    Thomas Jefferson

  • #19
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #20
    Umberto Eco
    “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
    Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

  • #21
    “Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”
    Joss Whedon

  • #22
    Steve Jobs
    “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.”
    Steve Jobs



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