A Quote by Chester Barnard

Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.

Chester Barnard

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Chester Barnard
American - Author
November 7, 1886 - June 7, 1961

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

Satyajit Ray

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

Keith Rabois

You have to seek the simplest implementation of a problem solution in order to know when you've reached your limit in that regard. Then it's easy to make tradeoffs, to back off a little, for performance reasons. You can simplify and simplify and simplify yet still find other incredible ways to simplify further.

Steve Wozniak

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

Keith Rabois

You can solve problems, but the solutions don't always have to be elaborate or expensive.

Peggy Whitson

Our life is frittered away by detail Simplify, simplify.” Or, as Plato wrote, “In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

Duane Elgin

I don't believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. They will come from islands within those organizations, islands of people with integrity who want to do something.

Karl-Henrik Robert

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

Malcolm Fraser

The first thing that editor does is they take out a red pen, or nowadays you go online, and they start striking things. Basically eliminating things, the biggest task of an editor is to simplify, simplify, simplify and that usually means omitting things.

Keith Rabois

Three Tips: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify.

Jakob Nielsen

I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.

Ellen Dissanayake

In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm.

Joseph Addison

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

I nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves.

Linda Perry

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

Alfie Kohn

Solutions and technologies exist to provide clean, affordable drinking water anywhere in the world. These solutions will save lives, reduce financial burdens, foster peace, and relieve millions of people from worrying about their next drink of water.

Jewel

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