Quotes About Refinement

Why was it, she asked herself, that 'animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast.

many diverse people of intelligence and refinement, outside Italy no less than within Italy, devote much effort and study to learning and speaking our language for no reason but love." These acolytes included Elizabeth I of England, Francis I of France, and Emperor Charles V, who once declared, "I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse." John

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

Elegance is a discipline of life.

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

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Not doing something crude right off is about as close as a guy like me ever gets to class.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.

Write the best story you can and throw out all the good lines.

I've always loved high style in low company.

Whatever I do, I always want to get better.

Whenever we create dishes, we work very carefully and ask ourselves, 'Is there anything on the dish that really doesn't make the dish better?' Then we eliminate that. We try to stay very focused on really showcasing everything on the plate so nothing gets lost.

Less is only more where more is no good.

I like pretty things around. I like it to be prissed up. Then I feel at least something is sane in my life.

If you look at previous generations, even where they didn't open up power, you look at an early Xbox 360 or early PlayStation 3 games and compare those to the ones that came at the end. The developers are just getting better. So time is far more important than opening up a little bit here or there, though it does all help.

I've noticed that right tackles have gotten better in pass pro throughout my career.

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

When I look at other products, I naturally think of ways to improve upon what already exists.