Quotes About Refinement

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

Any time you can squeeze out the opportunity to get better, you should.

I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway, I try to get better with each one.

I think we're in a quiet time right now. luxury can be in the fit.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

She had, or might have had, many suitors in her own rank of life, but scornfully repulsed or rejected them all; for none but a gentleman could please her refined taste, and none but a rich one could satisfy her soaring ambition.

An enormous gleaming grand piano stood in the center, its legs decently masked.

The room was one of her favorites, decorated entirely in dark green and white, with white doors and window embrasures, directing one's eye toward the light. The furniture was warm, dark rosewood, upholstered in cream brocade, and there was a bowl of white chrysanthemums on the table.

You are but a stray thread that needs to be trimmed.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

Reading good books spoils you for enjoying bad books.

No es acaso el atiborramiento la forma más refinada del sadismo? Y el amor, llevado a este punto de saturación de la demanda, ¿no se convierte en una forma de tortura?

Ten times as much polishing is definitely not ten times as good. Whether you're polishing a piece of furniture or an idea, the benefits diminish quickly. The polishing turns into stalling.

Ship your work. It's good enough. Then, make it better.

It's really about putting that sort of quality and beauty back into our life.

Models need to be judged by what they eliminate as much as by what they include—like stone carving, the art is in removing what you do not need.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.

Sophistication is the craft of subtlety that goes noticed.

Basitlik, bariz olan? ç?kar?p anlaml? olan? ekleme iÅŸidir.

the kind of place that thrived on understatement and quiet privilege.