Quotes About Refinement

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

La perfección no se alcanza cuando no hay nada más que añadir, sino cuando ya no queda nada que quitar. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

y en la microoptimización,

Draft ugly and edit pretty.

Once you get fancy, fancy gets broken.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. —ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY, pioneer

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. —Antoine de Saint-Exup

Along with that, the Bible continually reminds us that God sends the uncomfortable grace of trial not to crush or discourage us, but to mature and refine us. As we are realistic about difficulty, that needs to be our hope.

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

Details are always vulgar

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime".

the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

He had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

All nice girls sketch a little.

You are sure that I would not be well advised to make certain excisions and eliminations? You do not think it would be a good thing to cut, to prune? I might, for example, delete the rather exhaustive excursus into the family life of the early Assyrians?

When it comes to the smooth stuff, old girl, you're the oyster's eye-tooth!

Le raffinement culinaire était l'orgueil suprême des trois soeurs ; la table représentait pour elles la conservation d'un héritage sacré, d'une culture aux terres de laquelle elles ne reviendraient plus, écartées de leur patrie par le temps et par des mers immenses. J'avoue que j'ai vécu

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

Good taste is not something you can be taught. It's not something you obtain in a store or go to college to learn.

If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.