Simple and focused is beautiful

Focus

• I do 1st things first. I focus my efforts on the rewarding 20%.
• I focus! I know what my one goal is.
• Simplicity. What cannot be left out? What are the three most important? I do the vital 20%.
• Be a minimalist. Only retain what you need and use regularly. Reduce clutter. Let only the fittest survive. Travel light. Keep it down to the essentials.

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Simple is beautiful

• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” Hans Hofmann
• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity. Plato
• Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. C.W.Ceram
• An 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. Hoshang N. Akhtar
• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. Charles Mingu
• Out of intense complexities intense simplicities arise. Winston Churchill
• The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. Henri Frederic Amiel
• Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy. Richard Halloway

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Simplify!

• The simplest things are often the truest. Richard Bach
• Simplicity means knowing what can't be left out. Paul von Ringelheim
• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann
• Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
• An eye for small things leaves big things undone. Confucius
• Never use two words when one will do. Thomas Jefferson
• One of the great maladies of our time is the way sophistication seems to be valued above common sense. Norman Cousins
• Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify, simplify! ... Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose. Henry David Thoreau
• When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it. Jacob Lawrence
• Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter. D.H. Mondfleur
• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non- essentials. Lin Yutang
• "Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. Frank Lloyd Wright
• It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Mahlon Hoagland
• Simplicity is the nature of great souls. Papa Ramadas
• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo DaVinci
• In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. Tao Te Ching
• A key tenet of the Zen aesthetic is kanso or simplicity. In the kanso concept beauty, grace, and visual elegance are achieved by elimination and omission.
• Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. Dr. Koichi Kawana