Refinement Quotations

I use doodling for a variety of reasons: I use it to get clarity around a concept, I use it to relax, I use it to communicate ideas with others and get their refinement of them, I use it to map complex systems for companies, I use it to run innovation games for business, I use it to get insight on something puzzling me.

Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found which make it possible for us to compute by any sort of calculation exactly the value of any one atomic weight from any other.

There is still refinement needed - we are working on being able to do the same things at lower light levels and with a larger field of view.

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasnt time for endless refinements.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.

Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the

We were definitely happy with the win, but we feel like we have more refinement to do. We're not satisfied quite yet, and we're hoping to peak in May.

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes.

I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure that you know you have in your pocket, which requires an elegant gesture to use and show to others.

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

I think 'Chef' is about somebody who's in the middle of his life, and he's kind of lost his passion and his voice, so he seeks out some refinement and redemption.

Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly.

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

The refinement of an individual is measured by the yardstick of sense control.

Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

When we first started working on this Explorer, it became evident that crossovers are the hot spot in the market. Customers are looking for the refinement and fuel economy advantage that they can only get in a crossover.

I see no reason why Tiger Woods won't become a great player. Man, can he smoke some shots. A little refinement on Tiger's short game and there'll be nothing. He's already pretty darn imposing.

As the weather gets warmer, the blend changes to a more refined one. More refinement translates into more money at the pumps.

We think that Windows 2000 is the right architecture, but it is a complex product that likely will have some level of bugs and refinement that will have to occur after it is initially deployed.

The way to secure success, is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it; the surest hindrance to it is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the discernment of the public.

He still needs some refinement in his blocking, but he's every bit of the receiver we thought he'd be. That jumps out at you. He's easy to notice because he has that kind of capability.

They were not just interested in refinement in terms of aesthetic tastes and art collecting, but also refinement in the way that they educated the children.

The name of the game is going to be improving horizontal capability, which in turn gives either company the space to dive more specifically into verticals, ... This is evidence of the continuing refinement of the product line.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout The false refinements that would keep her out.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

For Bird, still a girl of principles, ideals and refinement - from her admirer, Lyndon.

Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.