Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The Obama campaign is one of the greatest examples of what is possible in the brave new world of 21st Century marketing.… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial… — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
We all say data is the next white oil. [Owning the oil field is not as important as owning the refinery because… — Maurice Levy Copy Share Image
On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
From the starch-heavy 'food pyramid' to ethanol fuel, the government adopts programs not because they are right but because they gains votes,… — Robert Prechter Copy Share Image
Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume… — A. Theodore Tuttle Copy Share Image
Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew!… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
