Quotes About Refinement

Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff.

The main thing is I've tried to get better at everything - that includes the attacking side, being a threat, and taking people on.

Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in one place, will work perfectly later.

When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.

You can always get better throwing the football.

Of course there's room for improvement all the time, throwing on time, throwing accurately and being able to move off of the spot and still find anther part of the progression, and that's something I need to work on.

A mans style in any art should be like his dress it should attract as little attention as possible.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety

They were earthy people, devoid of refinement.

Yet I love refinement and Eros has got me brightness and the beauty of the sun.

Elegance is like manners," he used to say. "You can't be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it's another matter.

Good software, like wine, takes time.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.

In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

But this practice [vegetarianism], in which youthful love of austerity finds charm, calls for attentions more complicated than those of culinary refinement itself; and it separates us too much from the common run of men in a function which is nearly always public, and in which either friendship or formality presides.

It is not unusual now to hear religion and humanism spoken of as if they were opposed, even antagonistic. But humanism clearly rested on the idea that people have souls, and that they have certain obligations to them, and certain pleasures in them, which arise from their refinement or their expression in art or in admirable or striking conduct, or which arise from finding other souls expressed in music or philosophy or philanthropy or revolution.

Once the first draft is done, the really tough work begins.

As far as the name goes, we may almist say that the great majority of mankind are agreed about this; for both the multitude and the persons of refinement speak of it as happiness, and conceive 'the good life' or 'doing well' to be the same thing as 'being happy.

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.