Yoko Ono Quotes

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with never-to-be forgotten stories.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

"Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence.

I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity.

The best things - when I really feel that I'm communicating, and when I really feel that people are getting it - are simple, straightforward recipes. I think simple is the hardest to achieve because you don't have all those elements to hide behind.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

I think it's OK that everyone's not real heavy and wordy and heady.

Above all, keep it simple.

Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.