The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation. — Hilton Kramer
Get maximum effect from minimum effort. — Bruce Lee
Good design means as little design as possible. — Dieter Rams
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. — Koichi Kawana
The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort. — Eric Ries
Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful. — Lou Reed
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct. — William of Ockham
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness. — Jackie Kennedy
Simplicity is the essence of universality. — Mahatma Gandhi
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation. — Ada Lovelace
Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance. — Claudio Silvestrin
Minimalism is about creating complete harmony and not about making simple. — Naoto Fukasawa
Short Minimal Quotes
The most important and hardest part of trust minimization is governance minimization. — Nick Szabo
Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface. — Donald Judd
Live simply so that others may simply live. — Mahatma Gandhi
The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least. — Arabic Proverbs
If you don’t like this, I’ll stop writing music. — Antonio Vivaldi
The majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do. — Gary Keller
I’m a Lamborghini, you’re a Volvo. You’re slow as hell, and I’m so damn fast. — KSI
I have far less than what people think, but far more than I need. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Simplify rules, regulations, and laws. Get government out of the business of micromanaging. — Edward O. Thorp
I prefer things nice and simple. — Akira Toriyama
Minimal Image Quotes
Good design is as little design as possible.
Minimalism Quotes
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. — Albert Einstein
Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter. — Harold S. Kushner
We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their own visions … not one that that merely succeeds in making apathetic students satisfy minimal standards. — Seymour Papert
I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct. — Richard Serra
Every time you sustain a head injury, the risk gets higher and higher. I always said that if there ever was a point where the risk was more than minimal, I would stop playing. — Pat LaFontaine
The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside. — Tenzin Palmo
We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. — Anna Brackett
Gold miners have incentive to conceal & minimize the full extent of their reserves, increase their capacity aggressively, and mine more gold as fast as they can. They are the enemies of gold investors. It’s a hopelessly antiquated system for storing value in the 21st century. — Michael Saylor
I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses. — Steven Soderbergh
Exposure to toxins in our environment can have serious health consequences, so it’s important to take steps to minimize our exposure. — Rhonda Patrick
Minimal Effort Quotes
We need to be able to demonstrate that what we do in today's world, in humanitarian aid, the enormous effort to minimize the tragic situations that we see all over the world, I think, without the U.N., people would suffer much more, and the situation would be much more terrible. — Antonio Guterres
The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time. — Matthieu Ricard
Positive reinforcement generates more behavior than is minimally required. We call this discretionary effort, and its presence in the workplace is the only way an organization can maximize performance. — Aubrey Daniels
In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs. — Theodore Kaczynski
Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you it's a good idea to buy a developing mind a video game? — Louis C. K.
People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks — Albert Bandura
The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal. — Linus Torvalds
There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and interesting is a manifestation of deficient scholarship. This is the fortress behind which the minimally coherent regularly find refuge. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign. — Paul Valery
The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too. — Ashly Lorenzana
Minimum Quotes
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress. — A. Philip Randolph
If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens — J. J. Watt
Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations. — Maurice Bejart
Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum. — Leonhard Euler
I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich but don't nobody wanna work for it. — Yo Gotti
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A straight line can readily be drawn among each of the two series of points corresponding to the maxima and minima, thus showing that there is a simple relation between the brightness of the variables and their periods. — Henrietta Swan Leavitt
I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach. — G-Eazy
Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is
and the richness with which this is experienced. — John Pawson
Multitudes and charlatans have entered the cryptocurrency and smart contract spaces who not only lack cypherpunk sensibilities, but hate cypherpunk values, including the values such as trust minimization that give cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin their market values. — Nick Szabo
The human fasting mimicking diet FMD program is a plant based diet program designed to attain fasting-like effects while providing micronutrient nourishment vitamins, minerals, etc. and minimize the burden of fasting. — Valter Longo
Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. —
The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible. — Rand Paul
The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance. — William Eckhardt
Decentralization is only a means towards the key to blockchain value, trust minimization, which brings a host of benefits: immutability, censorship resistance, global seamlessness, monetary and financial sovereignty. Other kinds of decentralization are security theater. — Nick Szabo
Be a curator of your life. Slowly cut things out until you’re left only with what you love, with what’s necessary, with what makes you happy. — Leo Babauta
Minimal Encouragers: Besides silence, we instructed using simple phrases, such as 'Yes', 'OK', 'Uh-huh', or 'I see'. — Chris Voss
There’s a core assumption that growth is always good, is always unlimited, and is required for success. — Paul Jarvis
It is stimulating to live in a society that is not standardized or mechanized, and is free from monotony. — R.K. Narayan
Success in investing is not about being right all the time. It’s about minimizing losses and maximizing gains. — Jim Simons
Few are obviously evil so it takes outsiders time to recognize, but now I can't deny the evidence: claiming immutability & censorship resistance on the one hand, attacking trust minimization principles on the other, claiming decentralization while devolving into centralized cult. — Nick Szabo
Those of us who ask little of life, get little. Those who ask much, get much, but those who ask for too much get nothing. — Thomas Phelps
This fetishization of wanting more, are empty promises of happiness and fulfillment that never seem to come to fruition. — Paul Jarvis
The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God. — Mike Bickle
Sometimes ‘enough’ or even less is all we need, since ‘more’ too often equates to more stress and more problems. — Paul Jarvis
The trend of design toward simplicity and accessibility in software happened for a reason—simple sells, simple’s usable and simple scales. — Rand Fishkin
An investment business has certain risks, and your job as an investor is not to eliminate all risks but to manage and minimize them. — Naved Abdali
Network marketing is the only industry that allows common people to earn millions with a minimal investment and zero overhead, coupled with total time freedom and the joy of global travel. There are three magic words that worked for all of us who have made it to the pinnacle and they'll work for you: 'Just don't quit.' — Mark Yarnell
Analysts are methodical and diligent. They are not in a big rush. Instead, they believe that as long as they are working toward the best result in a thorough and systematic way, time is of little consequence. Their self-image is linked to minimizing mistakes. Their motto: As much time as it takes to get it right. — Chris Voss
We can easily run a business with less, although to many people that seems counterintuitive. — Paul Jarvis
There are no words, it’s only music there. — Antonio Vivaldi
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