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“It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.”

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Author:Isaac Newton

“Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.”

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Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

“The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.”

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Author:Alexander Pope

“A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.”

“You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection.”

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Author:Feist

“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.”

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Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

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Author:Coco Chanel

“You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.”

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Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Gracias, danke, merci - whatever language is spoken, "thank you" frequently expressed will cheer your spirit, broaden your friendships, and lift your lives to a higher pathway as you journey toward perfection. There is a simplicity - even a sincerity - when "thank you" is spoken.”

Life Spirit Language Journey Higher Perfection Simplicity Lifts Cheer Sincerity Pathways

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.”

Art Simple Perfection Cooking Simplicity Kitchen Culinary

Author:Curnonsky

“Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.”

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Author:Philippe Petit

“The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials.”

Has Beens Results Quality Achieve Objects Essentials Perfection Simplicity Details Defined Minimum Improving Components Reducing Minimalism Omission Subtraction Junction Artefacts

Author:John Pawson

“Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.”

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Author:Bela Bartok