Quotes About Refinement

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

Development is maintenance.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved.

Standardization Is the Basis for Continuous Improvement and Quality

Murder is not a suitable topic of conversation for a young lady.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it

A lady should never feel anxious about her behavior. The status is bred in the bone. To show anxiety is to lower oneself. Anxiety is vulgar .

When you see a good move, look for a better one

a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects;

This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies.

A horror so refined

The true basis for being respected is to appear refined and modest.

Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features.

Rule of Optimization: Prototype before polishing. Get it working before you optimize it.

My sweet Harriet," he murmured. "I am delighted to see that you are still unpolished." She scowled up at him. "I assure you I am working very hard on that project, too, sir.

Edward gets funky in Beverly Mitchell's (and Jessica Biel's) garage rec room by painting the walls gray, building room screens that are painted gray and chartreuse, upholstering thrift store and existing furniture... Hildi brings a little refinement to George and Jeff Stolt'z bachelor pad living room... (Season 3, Episode 52)

I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.

We are like blocks of stone … blows of His chisel which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.

Everything burns if it is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.