Quotes About Refinement

If you're not cutting away more ideas than you keep, you're probably not doing discovery work right.

She liked the feeling of being winnowed down, as if there had been too much of her before, that anything unnecessary had been taken away and what was left was pure.

had been a long time since he'd touched a woman like that It was that he'd never touched a woman like Claire at all. Not one who was all cool culture and calm comportment and classy custom.

In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.

A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.

Classicism never commits any errors of taste.

I am improving a lot of my weaknesses.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

During the two centuries since the publication of 'The Wealth of Nations,' the main activity of economists, it seems to me, has been to fill the gaps in Adam Smith's system, to correct his errors and to make his analysis vastly more exact.

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

Poise is a word that seems to have slipped out of the lexicon. There's no emoji for it.

The idea of being able to polish something for nine months - it's the perfect way to hone your film.

Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

I can do posh.

You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself.

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

Carson Wentz, he's always continuing to improve.

We usually overrecord. Then we boil it down to the cream of the cream.

When I came into Test cricket, I was good but not as good as I am now.

Any systems can always be made better.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.