Quotes About Refinement

It does make you a better director and a better actor.

As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'.

Tactical and technical awareness can only improve and sharpen with time.

There is really no good English translation for adab. It means behaving well or good etiquette. It is acting with heedfulness, beauty, refinement, graciousness, and respect for others. The Koran teaches us the importance of acting beautifully. "Do what is beautiful. God loves those who do what is beautiful." (2:195)

it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...

First we must dig deeply into life to uncover new insights, new refinements of value and meaning, then create a story vehicle that expresses our interpretation to an increasingly agnostic world.

focus on getting a little bit better each and every day (in every dimension of our life).

Este imposibil s? aperi conving?tor cultura înalt? în faÅ£a unei persoane total lipsite de cultur?.

Sherman did not want to have to feed its citizens or assign extra troops to guard a sullen, restive population and ordered the evacuation of all residents. When the mayor pleaded that such an exodus would result in "appalling and heart-rending suffering," Sherman replied in lapidary prose: "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it . . . You might as well appeal against the thunder storm

As with industrial methods, Rockefeller broke down cycling into its component parts then perfected each movement.

Ann rolled her eyes. She had a marvelous eye roll, refined through long discipline, precise as acupuncture.

A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

La semplicità è la sofisticazione finale.

A simplicidade é o último grau de sofisticação

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

In der Einfachheit liegt die größte Vollendung

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.

Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala, I say with an affected bow.

More often, a poem went through twenty or thirty drafts with amazing numbers of alterations

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.

Yes, seasons, criticisms, and events can refine you—they have the potential to shape the mettle of your life, but they are not the substance of your life . . . God is.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.