Refining Quotes

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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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,… — Gordon B. Hinckley
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… — Charles Brent
Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living. — John Dewey
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. — Charles Francis Richter
If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains. — Dean Falk
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… — Francis Frangipane
Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75,… — James Dickey
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character. — Grenville Kleiser
To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play. — Swoosie Kurtz
Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity. — Massimo Vignelli
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… — John D. Rockefeller
We believe in the Three Rs - reducing the consumption of meat and other animal-based foods; refining the diet by eating products only from methods… — Wayne Pacelle
The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in an appeal to… — Horace Mann
My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are… — Robert W. Floyd
The Lord has said, â€˜I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.â€™ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will… — Neal A. Maxwell
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer things… — Jakob Nielsen
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is… — Yehudi Menuhin
God hates the LUKEWARM GOSPEL OF HALF-TRUTHS that is now spreading over the Globe. This gospel says, 'Just believe in Jesus and you'll be Saved.… — David Wilkerson

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