Quotes About Refinement

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better.

In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Only experience can refine a leader's art. High-uncertainty projects are full of anxiety, change, and ambiguity that the team must deal with. It takes a different style of project management, a different pattern of team operation, and a different type of project leader. I've labeled this type of management leadership-collaboration.

Someday I'd be classy if it killed me—probably not today, though.

What is elegance? Soap and water! CECIL BEATON

We are often hurt by a brutality and sluggish conceptions of the vulgar; not considering that some there must be, to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, and that cultivated genius, or even any great refinement and delicacy in their moral feelings, would be a real misfortune to them.

Elegance is really a kind of control.

Elegance is a kind of control.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

I've proved what I can do in bits, but I need to get better at everything.

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated — God, I'm sophisticated! (Daisy)

They were all tall and slender with heads groomed like manikins' heads, and as they talked the heads waved gracefully above their dark tailored suits, rather like long-stemmed flowers and rather like cobras' hoods.

in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud.

Don't imagine that I write just to write, or to publish, or to produce art. I write because this is the final goal, the supreme refinement, the temperamentally illogical refinement, of my cultivation of states of mind and feeling.

The long evening had made its way into the barrack through the windows, creating mysteries everywhere, erasing the seam between one thing and another, lengthening out the floors and either thinning the air or putting some refinement on my ear enabling me to hear for the first time the clicking of a cheap clock from the kitchen.

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

I don't like a lot of feathers and frills. I like a clean aesthetic, a Calvin Klein aesthetic.

I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

Every fighter seeks evolution.