Quotes About Refinement

Men always want to look like themselves, just a little bit better.

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

When I worked with Keira Knightley in 'Never Let Me Go,' I learned how to be classy and sophisticated.

Mr. Bachchan is too used to getting things done his way. I had always thought of him as an elegant, articulate, sophisticated, refined gentleman. What a let-down he was! What a shame!

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.

Systems learn by removing parts, via negativa.*4

Engineers and tinkerers develop things while history books are written by academics; we will have to refine historical interpretations of growth, innovation, and many such things.

The number of cultured people dropped below some critical level. Suddenly the place became a vacuum. Brain drain is hard to reverse, and some of the old refinement may be lost forever.

What a contrast with the other traders who lacked polish!

Systems learn by removing parts, via negativa.

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Some hotels have a lot of mirrors, chairs, you can't find the plugs, the music is complicated. But the Nobu concept is beautiful, simple.

If I think something's funny, I try to mold it into a joke as soon as possible. Once I have a joke, I say it a million different ways on stage until I find a rhythm and it feels like it's as good as it can be.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part

And if I've got to die, I want to die an editor.