"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art." - Frederic Chopin Whether life imitates art or art imitates life I cannot be sure, but one thing I do know is that simplicity is the pinnacle …
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The Ability to Simplify
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." ~ Hans Hoffman It is good practice to make a regular review of the systems you use to govern the factors and administer the details of your world, whether at work or at home. What may have been fitting weeks, …
A Discipline of Simplicity
"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets." ~ Henry Ford While it is not always the most comfortable place to be, working in a small business during the lean years can teach you a lot about how to function …
Uncorrupted Reason
I came across a remarkable collection of works produced by Thomas Cole, the English-born American artist who is credited with founding the Hudson River School. Cole possessed an uncommon ability to capture broad strokes of history in his landscapes. Cole aimed to produce a "higher style of landscape" imbued with romanticism and naturalism unparalleled in …
Green Eggs and Ham: The Wages of Simplicity
Why are the simplest things frequently the most influential? I was reading Dr. Seuss to my sons the other day and I couldn't help but be impressed by the simplicity of his bestselling book, Green Eggs and Ham, a simple book that is, incidentally, one of the best-selling children's books of all time! Seuss wrote …
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Keep it Simple
You've all no doubt heard the acronym K.I.S.S., which stands for "keep it simple stupid." It is a concept often touted but seldom heeded in marketing, in public speaking, in systems development, in boardrooms, in classrooms, in the world of medicine and health care and just about every other department of human life. Alan Siegel, a …
Gregory Hake 