Quotes About Refinement

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

Second General Rule of Thumb on Self Promotion Make your next book a better book.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

I've been working on my finishing for quite some time. It's just a question of paying attention to the minor details.

I thought it was getting better and better, because the production values were increasing each time we did it.

Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

First drafts always fall apart, he said, and one needs to study how, make changes, and keep testing until the checklist works consistently

It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I found it very manipulative and controlling. It put the other person constantly on-guard. And it was extremely intimidating because you never knew when she was going to snap. I made a mental note to refine these skills within myself.

He seemed as graciously at home as in the best restaurants of the city; his elegance had an odd quality here—it did not insult the place, but seemed to transform it, like the presence of a king who never alters his manner, yet makes a palace of any house he enters.

There was an air of luxury about the room, but it was the luxury of expert simplicity.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

simplicity is a matter of taste.

Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy

more decorous manner

I believe that one can never be an elegant man without a taste for reading.

As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.

Cuando vaya a crear su propio producto mínimo viable, siga esta simple regla: elimine cualquier elemento, proceso o esfuerzo que no contribuya directamente al aprendizaje que está buscando.

of work. Over that period, we were making constant improvements to the

The plainest row of books that cloth or paper ever covered is more significant of refinement than the most elaborately carved furniture.

Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly.