Top 60 Simplify Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Simplify Quotes from famous people such as Toyo Ito, Tony Bennett, Frank Lloyd Wright, Kevin Brady, John Raese, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
Toyo Ito
My whole premise has been, right from the beginning, that it would take me a lifetime to learn to explain myself as an artist. As you grow older, you learn what to do and what to leave out. You kind of simplify your work and get the same thing done with fewer strokes. It’s pretty interesting to me.
Tony Bennett
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Dave Camp, in my view, made tax reform inevitable in the sense that he showed you could broaden the base and lower the rates and simplify the code and be competitive around the world and make it more understandable.
Kevin Brady
We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don’t we simplify it? And I’ve certainly looked at fair tax, I’ve looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I’d like to review that.
John Raese
About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don’t believe in it. It’s something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work.
Paulo Coelho
Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
Arne Jacobsen
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don’t they?
Manuel Puig
My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I’m very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.
Rachel Boston
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann
One of the main functions of politicians – and journalists – is to simplify the world for us.
Adam Curtis
Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency.
Cass Sunstein
Moving to one show each season will significantly help to simplify many aspects of our business. Maintaining two separate, disconnected calendars has been a result of tradition rather than practicality.
Marco Bizzarri
To enhance ease of doing business, the government has taken multiple steps to simplify procedures, rationalise rules, and increased use of technology.
Sushma Swaraj
I try not to be overly literal. When I’m writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.
Neko Case
Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.
Kent Beck
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
Toyo Ito
I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.
Twyla Tharp
As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it’s about letting go.
Derek Magyar
I don’t think any business has to give up legal protections in order to simplify. The main consideration is that whatever protection, rights and remedies a corporation wants, they should be put in terms that are understandable to the consumer.
Alan Siegel
In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don’t keep them.
Isabelle Adjani
Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency.
Cass Sunstein
Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama
Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.
Adam Curtis
Corporate tax reform should include not just large C-corps but also smaller business S-corps and LLC pass-throughs. And nearly as important as cutting business tax rates is the need to simplify the inexplicably opaque and complex system.
Lawrence Kudlow
My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity.
Ruth Bernhard
Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
I don’t particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box – simplify it.
James Dyson
Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.
Alan Ball
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don’t they?
Manuel Puig
You cannot simplify human intelligence, emotion, and gr

You cannot simplify human intelligence, emotion, and growth. To watch the frills and furbelows of a human psyche is fascinating.
Peter Graves
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
Jon Oringer
I have a heart problem, so I have to simplify my life and be content with memories and friends and music.
Gian Carlo Menotti
I think it’s appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.
Michael Gove
In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn’t want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.
Gary Ross
My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn’t be able to make it from room to room.
Leonard Cohen
I try not to be overly literal. When I’m writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.
Neko Case
I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.
George Clooney
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau
We need to simplify the tax code to reward Americans for working hard, investing, saving – and allow families to keep more of their own money.
Todd Young
I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
Arne Jacobsen
In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
Barack Obama
I’m gonna make music, and I’m gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That’s really all I’m trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.
Mac Miller
While I ridicule books of self-help, I’m also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things.
Amitava Kumar
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that’s plutonium.
David R. Brower
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
Wole Soyinka
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
Jon Oringer
We will reduce the tax burden, simplify tax rules, and make life easier for those who want to produce, do business, invest, and create jobs.
Jair Bolsonaro
Life is complicated, and art has the right to be complicated, too. I don’t like films that simplify.
Pawel Pawlikowski
I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.
Zainab Salbi
Customers require the effective integration of technologies to simplify their workflow and boost efficiency.
Anne M. Mulcahy
Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people’s thoughts.
Hilary Mantel
You can’t simplify my taste and say, ‘Parker likes big wines,’ because it’s just not true.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry.
Paul Rand
They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.
Eric Carle
You cannot simplify human intelligence, emotion, and growth. To watch the frills and furbelows of a human psyche is fascinating.
Peter Graves
My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn’t be able to make it from room to room.
Leonard Cohen
The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.
August Krogh