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This post gathers minimalist quotes from people across various disciplines and generations. If you find the list useful, feel free to share it with others.
If you can´t explain it to a six year old, you don´t understand it yourself.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Less is more.
You can do anything, but not everything.
Less but better.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Minimalism is not a lack of something. It´s simply the perfect amount of something.
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
Pare down to the essence, but do not remove the poetry.
The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don´t.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thing clean to make it simple. But it´s worth in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
People think focus means saying yes to the thing you´ve got to focus on. But that´s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I am actually as proud of the things we haven´t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.
The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.
True simplicity is about bringing order to complexity.
A beautiful product that doesn´t work very well is ugly.
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Our things are like roommates, except we pay their rent.
For a minimalist, the objective isn´t to reduce, it´s to eliminate distractions so they can focus on the things that are truly important.
I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
Digital minimalism definitely doesn´t reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools.
All of humanity´s problems stem from man´s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
90 percent of success is not getting distracted.
Simplicity is complex. It´s never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.
If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated.
In order to seek one´s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
There is no greatness when there is no simplicity.
The great artist is the simplifier.
We all have limited number of ***** to give; pay attention to where and who you give them to.
The simplest things are often the truest.
Remember that if you don´t prioritize your life, someone else will.
Scrolling is the new smoking.
Love people and use things, because the opposite never works.
Make it simple but significant.
The things you own end up owning you.
We buy things we don´t need with money we don´t have to impress people we don´t like.
You get up to two and a half million dollars. Any ***hole in the world knows what to do: you get a house for the 25 year roof, an indestructible *** economy ****box, you put rest into the system of 3 to 5 % to pay your taxes and that´s your base. That´s your fortress of ******* solitude. That puts you for the rest of your life at a level of **** you. Somebody wants you to do something? **** you. Boss pisses you off? **** you. Own your house, have a couple of bucks in the bank, don´t drink. That´s all I have to say to anybody at any social level.
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.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Subtract until it breaks.
Addiction to distraction is the death of creative production.
Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.
Complexity is the enemy of execution.
If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
You´ll see I wear only gray or blue suits. I´m trying to pare down decisions. I don´t want to make decisions about what I´m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.
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