Quotes About Refinement

You don't have to come up with the new, new thing. Just do the old, old thing slightly better than everyone else.

followed the one percent rule: improve one percent each day, in each of these areas of life.

improve one percent each day, in each of these areas of life.

the good-to-great companies continually refined the path to greatness with the brutal facts of reality.

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

I've always gone for the more understated look.

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

Enrichment only comes through purification.

Beauty lies in simplicity.

Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

When you put a new show out, you always have a few kinks that you need to iron out, and you need to dial your show in. You figure out over a couple of weeks what songs work well together and what songs may not have the impact you thought they would at that spot in the show.

As you move through the application process, keep refining the way you present yourself. Like any skill, you'll only get better with practice, and you'll only hurt yourself if you get discouraged too early. This is one race that's definitely a marathon, not a sprint.

Polo is a quintessentially English sport. It stands for quality and sophistication and is recognised all over the world as such.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

I'm a better person now, and not only that - I'm a better man