Refine Quotes
99 quotes by 87 authors
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Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.
— Roger McGuinn
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The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of…
— Frederick Lenz
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Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all…
— Frederick Lenz
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Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.
— Henry Rollins
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The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.
— Joshua Bell
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Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.
— Lee H. Hamilton
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Meditate on your own and refine your consciousness. Tighten up your life. Constantly examine your life and look for weak points. You know what's going…
— Frederick Lenz
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Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first…
— Charles de Lint
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If you can refine your skills and eliminate your mistakes, you will start winning. That's the price you must pay to be successful in wrestling,…
— Jay Robinson
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The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we…
— Frederick Lenz
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There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last…
— Henry Adams
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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce…
— Bruce Feiler
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
— Washington Irving
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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools.…
— Ian Mcewan
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Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start…
— Adam Savage
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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
— Pete Townshend
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All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially…
— Octavia Butler
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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
— Henry David Thoreau
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