Quotes About Refinement

My tastes are Viennese.

No one teaches you how to be graceful.

Engineering is about finding solutions with a commitment to ongoing refinement. That's what engineering training teaches you.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. —Leonardo da Vinci

While you sat and played toccatas, stately at the clavichord.

For idleness is an appendix to nobility.

To write clean code, you must first write dirty code and then clean it.

The court imagined itself the pinnacle of refinement, but underneath its glittering surface a cauldron of dark emotions - greed, envy, lust, hatred - boiled and simmered. Our world today similarly imagines itself the pinnacle of fairness, yet the same ugly emotions still stir within us, as they have forever.

I'm about to sharpen up the engine a little.

Architecture strives to be the perfect embodiment of an idea as free as possible from all flaws or defects. It requires a process of methodical and relentless refinement.

To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture.

A basket of wildflowers on Jane's arm testified to a walk along the grounds, but she bore no sign of outdoor exertion. No creases dared to settle in the folds of her muslin dress; her pale brown hair remained obediently coiled at the base of her neck; and even the loops of the bow holding her bonnet were remarkably even. Aside from a bit of windburn on her pale cheeks, she might have been sitting in the parlour all afternoon.

Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural.

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

Quality is better than quantity.

In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes' theorem, scientific progress is inevitable as predictions are made and as beliefs are tested and refined.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

These values are 'distinctly European' because they were thought out, articulated and refined in the part of the planet that tends to be described as 'Europe proper', and their articulation and refinement cannot be separated from the course of Europe's history.

The laws of the Torah ask of each generation to fulfill what is within its power to fulfill. Some of its laws (for example Exodus 21:2 ff),14 do not represent ideals but compromises, realistic attempts to refine the moral condition of ancient man.

I have suffered into truth (...) Time refines all things that age with time

Time refines all things that age with time.

It was a refinement of teasing, where you were never told why your answer was wrong.

maintainence is elegance. Diana Vreeland. vogue magazine 1984.