Marissa Mayer Quotes

Easily acquired. Inexpensive. Perfectly functional. Portable. Identifiable. Disposable. Eternal enough. These are my criteria for the perfect storage system. And I’ve found the answer in the simple file box.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.

Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.

Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.

The plain wooden toothpick, it may be argued, is among the simplest of manufactured things. It consists of a single part, made of a single material, intended for a single purpose-from which it gets its simple name. It is also among the most convenient and ready of things. It can be used directly out of the box-there being no instructions to read, no parts to assemble, no priming or booting required, and no maintenance expected. When it has served its purpose, it is simply discarded.

Simple routine have a greater impact. It is not just to cut costs that we avoid luxury hotels. We do not need fancy cars, posh titles, tailor made uniforms or other status symbols.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

Making something simple is very difficult.

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with.They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence. It was as simple as that. And wasn' t that worth something? He existed.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.

People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.

I'm always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.