Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:   simple

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn’t give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
~Alan Perlis

Simplicity and complexity need each other.
~John Maeda

EndQuote:
The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.
~Tom Robbins

 

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Exercise Prompt for 09/20:   fire

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If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.
~Albert Einstein

The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
~Robert Breault

Wise is the one who learns to dumb it down.
~Curtis Tyrone Jones

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
~Jack Kerouac

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Posted from the Grove

Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it?
~Shannon L Alder

I have three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
~Lao Tzu

These possessions of a simpleton being the three I choose and cherish: to care, to be fair, to be humble.
~Lao Tzu

Escape from complicated life! Take refuge in simple life! You will find three treasures there: Healthy body, a peaceful mind and a life away from ambitious fools!
~Mehmet Murat ildan

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~Psych2go:  The 4 Types of Introvert   (4:51)   not as simple as imagined
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNKQYjsxgPU

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~Joanna Castle Miller:  I Am Liesl Von Trapp and I Owe the Resistance an Apology  a short imagined monologue
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am-liesl-von-trapp-and-i-owe-the-resistance-an-apology

 

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Complexity serves nothing but our ego. Be able to say what you do in a way that people can understand.
~Chris Brogan

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
~Aristotle

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
~John Maeda

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.
~Dejan Stojanovic

Seek simplicity but distrust it.
~Alfred North Whitehead

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There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
~Brandon Mull

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
~Jean de la Bruyere

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
~Marquis de Sade

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VIDEO:

Simplicity, the art of maximizing the amount of work not done, is essential.
~Principles Behind The Agile Manifesto

Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.
~Austin Freeman

Complexity is the enemy of execution.
~Tony Robbins

Complexity is the main enemy of security.
~Niels Ferguson

Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.
~Jeff Hawkins

Complexity is the enemy of clarity.
~Andy Stanley

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
~Edsger W Dijkstra

Complexity creates a maze between you and success. Simplicity ensures a clear line of sight.
~Lee J Colan

Simplicity is the shortest path to a solution.
~Ward Cunningham

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Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure.
~Dean Cavanagh

There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.
~Peter Drucker

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
~Alan Perlis

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~Even/Odd:  The Slows   (22:08)   the simple life reconsidered
https://vimeo.com/396730547

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~Omeleto:  Our kind of love   (15:48)   simple tradition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H6w–lVHlQ

 

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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.
~Jack Welch

It’s really a trade-off: you’re always having to decide whether you’re going to say the more ambitious thing, and lose a little clarity – or are you going to say something really clearly, and sacrifice a little nuance? Get too obscure, and you sound like a pretentious asshole; go overboard with the clarity, and you sound like you’re talking down to your audience, or like you yourself are a reductive simpleton.
~Elif Batuman

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MUSIC:

A life without love is of no account. Don’t ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. “Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire!” The universe turns differently when fire loves water.
~Elif Safak

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
~Joseph Campbell

An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation.
It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity.
It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
~Adrienne Rich

The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.
~Mignon G Eberhart

Unfortunately, little darlings, there is no such thing as a simple love story. The most transitory puppy crush is complex to the extent of lying beyond the far reaches of the brain’s understanding.
~Tom Robbins

But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.
~Rob Sheffield

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~Lynyrd Skynyrd cover — Shinedown:  Simple Man   (6:45)   working hard for his money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKiXmBbVN8Y

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~Robert Palmer:  Simply Irresistible   (4:18)   movie mashup instead of the sexy-in-sync video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2juxzBczBhY

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~Iyeoka:  Simply Falling   (3:57)   surprise win for love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pes54J8PVw

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~Simply Red:  Holding Back the Years   (4:20)   shillelagh nostalgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG07WSu7Q9w

 

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Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
~William Morris

One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.
~Francis Jourdain

Sometimes simplicity and elegance are indistinguishable from each other.
~Amit Kalantri

…complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.
~John Kenneth Galbraith

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

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed — it is a process of elimination.
~Elbert Hubbard

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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
~Albert Schweitzer

I’m a simple man without a lot of complicated twists and turns. Look down my throat and you can see out my ass.
~Liu Cixin

Life’s so much simpler when you’re dead!
~Stewart Stafford

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I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
~Sherwood Anderson

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple – love, sex and food!
~Meryl Streep

She was wild and free with a dab of logic in between, chasing her dreams and following her heartbeat.
~Nikki Rowe

Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.
~Sir Joshua Reynolds

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Sun Patch
© David Lorenz Winston

 

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Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tide-washed pebble.
~Dean Koontz

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
~Daniel Radcliffe

There is a new science of complexity which says that the link between cause and effect is increasingly difficult to trace; that change (planned or otherwise) unfolds in non-linear ways; that paradoxes and contradictions abound; and that creative solutions arise out of diversity, uncertainty and chaos.
~Andy Hargreaves

We live in a rainbow of chaos.
~Paul Cezanne

Don’t let complexity stop you.
~Bill Gates

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@Writers Platform

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
~Oscar Wilde

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
~Bertrand Russell

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
~Alice Roosevelt Longworth

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
~Cary Grant

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Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
~Albert Einstein

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
~Dr Seuss

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
~Dalai Lama

When the solution is simple, God is answering.
~Albert Einstein

 

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Exercise Prompt:  simple

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The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
~Scott Turow

I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.
~Norman Hartnell

Without complexity, there’s no intensity.
~Alexandra Adornetto

A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.
~Eugene Delacroix

The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.
~Fritjof Capra

If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.
~David Steindl-Rast

What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?
~Atul Gawande

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The Exercise:

~BarTalk:

Request

The sewage and sludge of politics complexity
The sameness and drudge of mundane simplicity

The lying and fudging of strayed love’s duplicity
The dredging for scandals caught naughtily, nastily
Happily judging another while engaged in complicity
I don’t ask for much, no lodging, no money, no pity
But a hedged in garden far away from the city

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Dear God Amazon

Dear god, Amazon
Answer please a simple supplicant’s prayer
Sideline Baal’s archangel Algo Rithm the player
Grant passage past hindrance, your Tower of Babel
Past the incessant babble of a towering Bezos
Confined by confusion and a confounding unfitness
Saddened by ineptness your followers must witness
Consigned by condign muddling to drown in distress

In your mainframe mire, your Slough of Despondency
Your computerized legions of digitized demons
May your blind metal monster of mechanized minds
Founder in your Oceans of Acid Based Incompetency

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Cycle

Sweet dimpled cheeks to catch the eye of a new love
Simple heavy sighing, signature sign of a true love
Skipped irregular beats mark the heart of a first love
First token tears the start of a burst and a broken love
Married for years in a confusing and abused love
Failing love fraying, a defused and unused love

 

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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
~Lin Yutang

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
~Orison Marden

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
~Socrates

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It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town, he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.
~Henry David Thoreau

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.
~Robert Brault

We don’t need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.
~Donald Horban

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
~Edwin Way Teale

Simplicity is not the opposite of wealth. It is the door to the riches you already own.
~Alan Cohen

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
~Charles Warner

When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.
~Benjamin Hoff

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Curated by:  Wordgrove

 

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