Spencer Tracy Quotes

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

Eliminate the unnecessary and focus on the substance.

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

The one thing I've always done is to try not to overcomplicate anything.

The best artists know what to leave out.

You have to stay very basic. You have to stay very focused. You have to stay very disciplined.

Never say more than is necessary.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Less is more.

Keep it simple.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

I say what I need to, not a whole lot more.

Simplicity is the key.

Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go from my studio to my bedroom. Everything else is extraneous. I never entertain, because to me, New York is about meeting people in public spaces, absorbing a little bit of their energy.

I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.

When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, 'Do fewer things.' It's true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that's taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

Less is only more where more is no good.