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Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. -- Ernst Haas
Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world. -- Dan Millman
Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them. -- Lee H. Hamilton
The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing. -- Joshua Bell
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. -- Washington Irving
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. -- T. S. Eliot
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. -- Leigh Hunt
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
I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want them to look like plastic dolls. -- Douglas Kirkland
What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess. -- Ryan Stiles
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it. -- James Ellroy
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe. -- Tony Snow
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 thinking waaay outside the box. -- Adam Savage
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. -- Eliza Farnham
My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise. -- Nolan Bushnell
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. -- Henry David Thoreau
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. -- Isaac Rosenberg
The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible. -- Yves Behar
I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance. -- Jerry Harrison
A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience. -- Tyler Cowen
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. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves. -- Ian Mcewan
Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted. -- Carl Safina
In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300 pounds and crazy to get anyone's attention. Then, you can refine yourself. I always knew under those 300 pounds and tracksuits was a refined, slim, dignified man. -- Al Sharpton
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 the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
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 back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come. -- Bruce Feiler
It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream. -- Danny Meyer
I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys. -- Marvin Gaye
I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it. -- Amy Hempel
An actor should refine public taste. -- Aristophanes
Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
War is Hell you can NOT refine it! -- William Tecumseh Sherman
War is cruel and you cannot refine it. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Let your failures refine you, not define you. -- Max Lucado
Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them. -- Roger McGuinn
Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design. -- Henry Rollins
Hardships refine a man to what he ought to be. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
God takes us through the fires to refine us like gold. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music. -- Confucius
Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little. -- Camille Pissarro
Empowerment is the ability to refine, improve, and enhance your life without co-dependency. -- Steve Maraboli
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's. -- William Matthews
Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there. -- Jerry Harrison
In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts. -- Linda Ronstadt
All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine. -- William Cowper
Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language. -- Stanislas Dehaene
We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. -- Henry David Thoreau
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire. -- Timothy Keller
The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless. -- Steven Weinberg
All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all. -- Mooji
As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline. -- Jonathan Swift
Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel. -- Liz Curtis Higgs
The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion. -- Giorgio Armani
Money can cloud your vision. Sometimes, God takes away the money and uses times of adversity to refine us like gold. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails. -- Jonathan Swift
To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination. -- William Carlos Williams
See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training. -- Miyamoto Musashi
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction -- Alvar Aalto
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction. -- Alvar Aalto
Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from within. -- T.F. Hodge
Difficult times don't come your way just so you can survive them; God uses these times in your life to form and refine you. -- Joel Osteen
Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be. -- Jon Gordon
It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality. -- Jay Michaelson
Knowing how to distinguish between an ideal keyword and the reality of queries will help you to refine your strategy and success as an online marketer. -- Neil Patel
Tribulations often enrich, refine, and guide us to a deeper understanding of the purpose of our existence here in mortality and of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. -- Jose A. Teixeira
You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service to others with purity, humility, integrity. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that it's the purest amber of my one way... -- Doseone
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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 melt the ego down. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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 melt the ego down. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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 on in your life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare. -- Ellen Raskin
As we begin to become aware of the narrative patterns around which we structure our lives, we learn how to take charge, revise, refine, and even completely rewrite them. -- Mandy Aftel
Be purposeful in your actions. Be mindful to keep your behavior in alignment with your goals. Remember, you can refine, improve, and enhance yourself; all other control is illusory. -- Steve Maraboli
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves. -- Charles Caleb Colton
England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 the aspects of our being. -- Frederick Lenz
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 the aspects of our being. -- Frederick Lenz
It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it. -- Paul Auster
To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations that we Western collaborators then refine with him. -- Joan Halifax
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, and in most aspects of life. -- Jay Robinson
I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might have something to contribute. -- Jerry Pinkney
No logo, and you don't advertise for anyone. I don't believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own taste. Mass luxury is not my luxury. -- Lapo Elkann
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 the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Living on purpose is a lifestyle, a way of being and a lifelong spiritual practice that will refine your Soul. This isn't a 10-day or 30-day plan. This is a lifelong adventure! -- Mastin Kipp
I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice. -- Nate Parker
So when time had begun to run out on Adelia with no really acceptable husband in sight, she'd married money -- crude money, button money. She was expected to refine this money, like oil. -- Margaret Atwood
You need to change the questions you ask yourself and of your situations, in order to change the trajectory of your life. These are questions that will help you define and refine your purpose. -- Archibald Marwizi
Don't spend too much time planning, release early and often, some things will work, others won't, refine and move forward and above all forget the money, just make sure you love what you're doing. -- Kevin Rose
For me, the attraction of TV is that you continue to get to tell those stories and refine those characters. The other thing is that TV, in the last years, got really, really, really good. -- Jonathan Nolan

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