Quotes About Refinement

We want to raise the art of living well.

It is rare for a joke to emerge fully formed and it is worth grafting away until it is absolutely right. Though perversely too much work, too much thought, can destroy a gag completely.

It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.

I'll keep getting better and better.

You want to keep getting better every day.

I want to keep getting better and better.

For me, I'm just trying to keep getting better.

I'm going to try to keep getting better.

I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.

I feel like I'm getting better at being a writer.

I think one thing I've always focused on is getting better instead of getting somewhere.

I'm learning and constantly getting better.

I just continue to keep getting better.

I'm always big on getting better.

I want to keep getting better.

I'm going to keep getting better every single year.

My goal is always about getting better.

I've just gotta continue getting better and developing.

With each game I feel that I'm getting better and better.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.

I have become convinced that everything that is classy doesn't go away.

Better is the enemy of good.

felt somewhat surprised that I could be so much at ease in such company, but I found it then, as I have since, that the higher the gradation in intelligence and refinement the farther removed are all artificial distinctions and restraints of mere caste or color.