Minimalists Quotes & Sayings

People always have reason to hate, though they often may not find any reason for love. — Awdhesh Singh

If we were all minimalists instead of conspicuous consumers, there would be less demand on the world's resources and we'd have a smaller, less berserk economy. We'd be less likely to harm the only planet we'll ever have, and the super-rich would have fewer ways to exploit us. — Robert Wringham

I don't know what a hard-ass feminist is. I'm a feminist, which only means that I think men and women deserve equal treatment. Hardly a groundbreaking concept. But I'm sure you're about to give an example of where I failed in that. — Kelley Armstrong

Until you know who you are you can't write. — Salman Rushdie

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have. — Maya Lin

Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined. — Madison Smartt Bell

It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem. — Mark Kac

There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe. — Pat Conroy

Why can't a woman be more like a man? — Alan Jay Lerner

Love people. Use things. The opposite never works. — The Minimalists

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal ... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. — Agnes Martin

I love men who make me laugh. — Nastassja Kinski

As a bio-philosopher - as someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and in a sense, we have become the process itself - through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and to anticipate the future and to choose from amongst alternatives. — Jonas Salk

Minimalists are people who only own what they really need on a regular basis. — Emile Joy

Love is only Here and NOW — Sushil Singh

Wilson-Donovan wanted to move ahead as quickly as possible to clinical trials on patients, which was why it was so important to test Vicotec's safety now before the FDA hearings in September, which would hopefully put it on the "Fast Track." Peter was absolutely sure that the testing being concluded by Paul-Louis Suchard, the head of the laboratory in Paris, would only confirm the good news he had just been given in Geneva. — Danielle Steel

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with. — Ann Beattie

Tactical Urbanism is pure American know-how. It is the common sense that housed, fed, and prospered an entire continent of penniless immigrants. — Mike Lydon

If you say that something is impossible, you take your place amongst the losers, may be not immediately, but definitely for the future! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

One of the biggest threats to success is success itself. When you get a little bit ahead, it's all too easy to become complacent and to quickly lose what you have gained. — Ralph Marston

Even if yesterday existed, today is just real, not a fantasy like the past. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart. — Dorothy Parker