Top 22 Refining Quotes

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.

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it’s not as satisfying in the end.

You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you’re happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won’t happen that often, but it will happen. It’s like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.

The Lean Startup is a process for turning ideas into commercial ventures. Its premise is that startups begin with a series of untested hypotheses. They succeed by getting out of the building, testing those hypotheses and learning by iterating and refining minimal viable products in front of potential customers.

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

I’d also like to do a play. I’ve never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I’d like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people – and it probably is work.

I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I’m always refining, but I’m not obsessive about it. It’s what I like to do, what I’ve always wanted to do.

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.

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

Writing for late night is really good for learning how to write when you don’t want to write. You have to produce every day. It’s also very good for refining the difference between your point of view and the host’s.

While driving to work, I’ll choose to think about a particular subject rather than just have random thought streams landing on one subject or another. For example, I might think about the structure of an opinion. Or I might think about the first sentence of an opinion, refining it.

Google is a company whose very existence depends on innovation – on inventing things that are new and didn’t exist before – and on refining existing ideas and technologies to allow consumers to do things they couldn’t do before.

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

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.

I’m really looking to reach any woman who’s interested in refining and embracing her personal style.

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

I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit.

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