Quotes About Refinement

I've just got better as a player thanks to Pep.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to take something everyone already knows and make it a little better.

Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.

The most important thing is that I continue to improve.

The one thing you don't want to do is go off and keep rewriting. If something's not quite right, it's often about modulating what's already there.

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

tongue. Sophisticated

Life, after all, seemed less raw after a glass of champagne.

Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.

A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age.

Don't try to be original, just try to be good.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

She used to be a teacher but she has no class now.

Kaizen is a Japanese term that captures the concept of continuously making many small improvements. It was considered to be one of the main reasons for the dramatic gains in productivity and quality in Japanese manufacturing and was widely copied throughout the world. Kaizen applies to individuals, too. Every day, work to refine the skills you have and to add new tools to your repertoire.

Always take small, deliberate steps, checking for feedback and adjusting before proceeding

Once they've agreed to the layout, you might throw it away and recode

Like the craftsman, expect to add to your toolbox regularly. Always be on the lookout for better ways of doing things.

Plan what you want to say. Write an outline. Then ask yourself, Does this get across whatever I'm trying to say? Refine it until it does.

The thing you're doing by default is rarely the best possible version of the thing.

Edit more, my mantra.

Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually like these people, too. St. Augustine spoke of a man who, on earth, had chronic gas problems; in heaven, his flatulence became perfect music.