Quotes About Refinement

MTV has a been a great partner over the years. I'm truly grateful for the platform they've provided for me to create and refine compelling, entertaining media at the highest level.

Thinking like an entrepreneur means establishing a core audience of early adopters and constantly experimenting to make your product better and better. If your initial concept is showing promise and early success, keep iterating to refine and evolve your idea.

Being 6'7' as a point guard and playing with Sam Cassell and Cuttino Mobley on the Clippers really helped refine my post game and play with my back to the basket.

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it's still there.

I try to handle myself with class.

It's just about working on everything, perfecting everything, like my 3-point shot or ball handling.

When did you last have fun being dignified?

I am at heart a gentleman.

I feel like there's too many areas in my game that I've sharpened and crafted and brought to a really high level.

He was clearly a person of affluence, if not of taste.

I never indulge commonplace thoughts, said Sir Vincent... Not, at all events, in relation to the Grand Sophy.

As usual, he was richly, if somewhat negligently dressed. Miss Challoner, incurably neat, wondered that a carelessly tied cravat and unpowdered hair could so well become a man. Not a doubt but that the Marquis had an air.

A man whose raiment attracted attention, had said Mr Brummell, was not a well-dressed man.

The pocket square, properly contrived, finishes a man's look. With good tailoring and well chosen neckwear, the look connotes power, taste, refinement, manners. The naked pocket connotes the opposite: working class, tasteless, base, crude, ignorant.

There are certain tuxes you can get away with a black tie, but with others, you'd be dishonoring the workmanship if you didn't wear a full bow tie.

I believe a filtration process works, where you need someone to listen, before the track goes out into the world.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

The word 'fashion' I don't like because fashion is something that's over in six months. I'd like to find a word that's more timeless.

I need to improve on a lot of different areas. I need to improve on my timing on my shot-blocking, when to go, and when not to go. And there's definitely always room for improvement on my shooting.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

Good taste is as tiring as good company.

The text illustrates the pictures - it provides a connective tissue for me. I usually refine the text last, partly because pictures are harder to do, so it's easier to edit words - I use text as grout in between the tiles of the pictures.

Evil is tolerable if purged of coarseness.