Simplify Quotes

“Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Let today be the day you finally release yourself from the imprisonment of past grudges and anger. Simplify your life. Let go of the poisonous past and live the abundantly beautiful present... today.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Kujenga urafiki na wanasiasa wakati mwingine ni kitu kizuri. Wanasaidia kurahisisha mambo.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Instead of thinking I am losing something when I clear clutter, I dwell on what I might gain.”
― Lisa J. Shultz, Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.

“Simplifying your life is about simplifying yourself.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“If we don’t know what we do and why we do it, everything else will look like a possible option.”
― Richard Young

“Energy, not time, is the main currency in high performance.”
― Richard Young, SIMPLIFY: A high performance playbook to win the real game

“Have you ever thought, not only about the airplane but whatever man builds, that all of man’s industrial efforts, all his computations and calculations, all the nights spent working over draughts and blueprints, invariably culminate in the production of a thing whose sole and guiding principle is the ultimate principle of simplicity?
It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship’s keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elementary purity of the curve of the human breast or shoulder, there must b experimentation of several generations of craftsmen. In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“There is a tendency, especially today, to reduce all political analysis to an ideological formula, and to judge everything according to this formula. Such a reduction is usually erroneous, even dangerous, when applied to a complicated world. It is, of course, easier to simplify everything in order to make it more comprehensible. But the world does not become simpler when we ideologically simplify. We become simpler – to the point of stupidity.”
― J.R.Nyquist

“Goals don't separate high performers; systems do.”
― Richard Young, SIMPLIFY: A high performance playbook to win the real game

“High performers not only practice deliberately, they think deliberately.”
― Richard Young, SIMPLIFY: A high performance playbook to win the real game

“Have you ever thought, not only about the airplane but whatever man builds, that all of man’s industrial efforts, all his computations and calculations, all the nights spent working over draughts and blueprints, invariably culminate in the production of a thing whose sole and guiding principle is the ultimate principle of simplicity?
It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship’s keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elementary purity of the curve of the human breast or shoulder, there must be experimentation of several generations of craftsmen. In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Everyone has one system they use and one they are building, but most do not see the bigger picture of the system they are in.”
― Richard Young, SIMPLIFY: A high performance playbook to win the real game

“Awareness is the first objective - not action and change.”
― Richard Young, SIMPLIFY: A high performance playbook to win the real game

“There are no solo high performers. The best support teams are tight open and honest they have learned that agreement is not a priority but understanding the truth is.”
― Richard Young, SIMPLIFY: A high performance playbook to win the real game

“The puzzle of performance becomes much simpler when the bar is visible each day.”
― Richard Young, SIMPLIFY: A high performance playbook to win the real game

“By seeing and improving the system, we create leverage.”
― Richard Young, SIMPLIFY: A high performance playbook to win the real game

“System changes come directly from thinking changes.”
― Richard Young, SIMPLIFY: A high performance playbook to win the real game

“Self-aware learners create exceptional performances.”
― Richard Young, SIMPLIFY: A high performance playbook to win the real game

“Fixing feels like motion, but is not always progress.”
― Richard Young, SIMPLIFY: A high performance playbook to win the real game

“Conviction is knowing what to add and what to remove for a performance system we fully understand.”
― Richard Young, SIMPLIFY: A high performance playbook to win the real game

“Let go of whatever you saw…
Let go of whatever you shall not see…
You are floating in the ripples. Ride the waves. The calmer sea is within your reach.
Your heart is beating strong. Your breath is good enough to survive. You are alive now. This very moment is the one that matters the most. You’ve done well. You’ve done well.
Simplify! Simplify! Simplify!”
― Udayakumar DS, Life of a Sunset Kid

“Touching unnoticed objects reactivates your sense of
ownership. Reactivating ownership makes it harder to let go.”
― Annie Eklöv, Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms

“You can always simplify‎”
― ĐƠN GIẢN, The Simple Book of Infinity

“When we simplify, we create room for deeper presence, gentler rhythms and moments that whisper soul-deep”
― AshRawArt

“Simplify to amplify… moments of beauty that whisper soft, sacred and soul-deep”
― AshRawArt

“Contrary to the indoctrinated notion that reducing existence to the essentials is for half-wits and losers in this golden age of technological ‘progress,’ simplicity isn’t simplistic—or at least it doesn’t have to be.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“You know you’ve lost your simplicity when you’ve found your busy-ness.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Let me be clear that I’m not judging desire per se. One’s motivation to live simply is itself a form of desire. We can’t escape desire; nor should we try to, in my opinion.

But I do wish to point out that desire, like a laser on a swivel, can be redirected from the outside to the inside—with astonishing results of a magical nature when focused on healing, transformation, and transcendence.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“Every minute wasted on complexity
is a minute stolen from creation.”
― Greg Born, The 3 Laws: Escape Chaos, Unlock Clarity, Achieve Epic Results