Top 185 Refine Quotes & Sayings

I think there's no truer and more pure purpose than to be able to refine your art to a point where you feel it's as possible as it can be.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

I don't have any problem with criticism. It's an incentive to refine myself.

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

I think I just need more time to refine my skills, and I can be a dominant pass rusher.

The great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages.

Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.

It's important to learn from your mistakes and then to refine.

Knowing how to distinguish between an ideal keyword and the reality of queries will help you to refine your strategy and success as an online marketer.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.

To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations that we Western collaborators then refine with him.

I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options.

We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them.

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

I do all my coloring on PhotoShop - it's good and bad: It helped refine my color, but I do miss the texture and organic quality of the traditional.

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.

There's always things you can refine and polish.

An actor should refine public taste.

As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're not wasting a lot of time getting' to the point. You're saying it with as pure a word or phrase as you can. That's the part that was craft. You refine and refine and refine. Maybe that's why the songs still hang on, because they're very pure. For one thing, they're very short. "Bad Moon Rising" is like 2 minutes and 12 seconds. I would try to do everything as quickly and with as little extra as possible. It was a challenge.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Failure and missteps help refine your character and make you wiser.

We have an opportunity with the Model S to refine the design language, the surfacing, and all aspects of functionality.

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that it's the purest amber of my one way.

Sometimes you try a song and people don't respond, or you tell a story and you just hear crickets. But when you play thousands of shows, you start to refine stuff.

To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination.

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

A journalist uses the most precise words he or she can. An artist does the same sort of thing. You gather material about a particular subject, you refine it as best you can.

The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.

A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.

In adversity, everything that surrounds you is a kind of medicine that helps you refine your conduct, yet you are unaware of it. In pleasant situations, you are faced with weapons that will tear you apart, yet you do not realize it.

You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service to others with purity, humility, integrity.

MTV has a been a great partner over the years. I'm truly grateful for the platform they've provided for me to create and refine compelling, entertaining media at the highest level.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.

Let your failures refine you, not define you.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.

In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Being 6'7' as a point guard and playing with Sam Cassell and Cuttino Mobley on the Clippers really helped refine my post game and play with my back to the basket.

Tribulations often enrich, refine, and guide us to a deeper understanding of the purpose of our existence here in mortality and of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

When done right, working is a series of decisions that you make which allow you to refine and refine and refine your highest and best use. Ultimately, if you are lucky, you will find out where you belong.

Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.