Quotes About Refinement

Kaizen" is a Japanese term that captures the concept of continuously making many small improvements.

Programmers are constantly in maintenance mode.

Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found which make it possible for us to compute by any sort of calculation exactly the value of any one atomic weight from any other.

If I welcomed people into my lovely home every week in the pages of a magazine, they'd soon see how incredibly dull it is. It's important to maintain a bit of mystique.

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

I'm just going to keep dialing it in and keep practicing.

Everything I get praised for, I can still work on and get better.

I am still working on patter and presentation.

Used to be some liabilities people would talk about in my game. I feel like I have cleaned those up pretty well. Returning was big for me. I think I've gotten a pretty good hold on that.

I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.

People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant.

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

I'm big on what's in good taste.

I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

The French have got taste.

People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.

I think probably Australians have just a little more taste than most people.

Taste is so much more important than fashion.

Let's just say I have expensive taste.

This is Seattle. We're supposed to have superior taste.

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.