Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing¦ changing. You… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity. — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy. — Ken Cohen Copy Share Image
A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
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. — James Fallows Copy Share Image
I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring… — James Nares Copy Share Image
To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force… — Kabir Helminski Copy Share Image
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's… — Chris Paine Copy Share Image
Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over materials, to spread into and ultimately incorporate older industries such… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
We believe in the Three Rs - reducing the consumption of meat and other animal-based foods; refining the diet by eating products… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky. — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image