A-Z of Soft Skills: S is for Simplicity

 So I'm just a little overextended today and I'm going to take "S for a shortcut" on this one until I find adequate time to do this "S for soft skill" the justice it deserves.

I'm going to make you read what people way more famous than I have said about simplicity. Shortcut for me, but still a good read for you.

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.” 
― Albert Einstein
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” 
― Confucius
“And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time.” 
― Nicholas Sparks
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” 
― Clare Boothe Luce
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” 
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
“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.” 
― Ernst F. Schumacher
“Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.” 
― Lao Tzu
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” 
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“The greatest ideas are the simplest.” 
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” 
― Bruce Lee
“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
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” 
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy” 
― Isaac Newton
“If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.” 
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Colum McCann, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, 'If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.'
Said [author: Diogenes|3213618, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".” 
― Anthony de Mello
“The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.” 
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin