Quotes About Refinement

There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be so. It is just the way our economic system is.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

It's a never-ending process to try to make yourself the best person you possibly can.

The best artists know what to leave out.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

Everything can be improved.

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

The best businesses adopt a similar approach to Google. They are consistently looking for ways to improve what they do.

A large proportion of Venetians worked in the textile industry. There were the lace-makers, their eyesight ruined by their labour. Children, from the age of five, were enrolled in the trade. The exquisite refinement of the art, prized by the rich matrons of Europe, can be measured in human suffering.

Where was the Jew in him? You couldn't find it and yet you knew it was there. Where was the irrationality in him? Where was the crybaby in him? Where were the wayward temptations? No guile. No artifice. No mischief. All that he had eliminated to achieve his perfection. No striving, no ambivalence, no doubleness- just the style, the natural physical refinement of a star.

Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.

Why, after all these years, do I still believe that expensive clothing signifies anything more than a disposable income, that tweed and cashmere actually bespeak refinement?

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary." —Pablo Picasso

it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid

What everyone agreed was not very nice, was the way Clémence had carried on. Obviously, she wasn't the kind of girl you'd ask again: she'd ended up showing off everything she'd got, and she'd puked all down one of the muslin curtains and completely ruined it. At least the men did go into the street to do it; Lorilleux and Poisson, when they felt queer, managed to dash as far as the pork-butcher's shop. Breeding always tells.

I'm always actively working on being a better me.

There are things I need to improve on and things I need to adapt to.

I've always been trying to add stuff to my game.

Nuestras ridiculeces son causadas en gran medida por un bello sentimiento, una virtud o unas facultades llevadas al extremo. El orgullo que no se refina con el trato del gran mundo se transforma en rigidez que se apega a simples pequeñeces en vez de crecer en un círculo de sentimientos elevados.

Simplicity and charm.

El lujo era para ella lo que el cristal tallado para una esencia: su envase natural.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.