Refining Quotes

Refining Quote of the day

Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity.

There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

The thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress.

It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

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

I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush.

We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life.

When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining.

I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.

To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.

I'm a free spirit. A spirit that evolves. I'm a diamond. I'm just refining it. Polishing it. Glossing it up.

Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.

I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.