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Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. -- Charles Francis Richter
Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it -- Thomas Szasz
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. -- Roy L. Smith
I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky. -- Daniel Boulud
I'm really looking to reach any woman who's interested in refining and embracing her personal style. -- Nina Garcia
To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play. -- Swoosie Kurtz
Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics. -- Neil Diamond
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.
I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it. -- David Pogue
For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing. -- Danny Pino
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving. -- Lee H. Hamilton
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again. -- R. A. Salvatore
I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work. -- Nastassja Kinski
I get excited about what the Holy Spirit is doing now through all the people he is refining and raising up all over this planet. I love connections and relationship and networking but it must be led by the Spirit. -- Daniel Smith
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. -- Chaim Potok
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. -- Steve Martin
Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general medicine, via either managed care or large practice settings, is improving by collecting data through electronic records and refining practice based on what works. -- Thomas R. Insel
You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time. -- Kenneth Cranham
I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how the past is, and a lot of academic archaeology is about refining the model. It's not about changing the model radically. I'm not aware of any current which is about radically changing the model. It's just me, really. -- Graham Hancock
After 'The Hobbit,' I have no idea if things will change. I suspect if I still want to act I will have to put in the hard yards, not rest on my laurels. A lot of it is right place, right time, but I enjoy the challenge, constantly refining my craft, not taking it too seriously but never taking it for granted. -- Mark Hadlow
Sorrow has a great refining influence on our sacred souls. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat? -- Neal A. Maxwell
Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy. -- Ken Cohen
All of history has pointed its refining focus to your life this moment. -- Bryant McGill
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy. -- Jim Rohn
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. -- Willa Cather
Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living. -- John Dewey
When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges. -- Joel Osteen
I'm a free spirit. A spirit that evolves. I'm a diamond. I'm just refining it. Polishing it. Glossing it up. -- Simeon Rice
I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles. -- Steve Pavlina
Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark. -- Israelmore Ayivor
We must stop chasing dollars, stop lying, stop cheating, stop ignoring art, literature, and all the refining agencies and instrumentalities of civilization. -- Ambrose Bierce
Intellectual elegance [is] a mind that is continually refining itself with education and knowledge. Intellectual elegance is the opposite of intellectual vulgarity. -- Massimo Vignelli
According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union. -- James Fallows
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 principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character. -- Grenville Kleiser
We talk about defining moments, but I think nothing can define you. They're all refining moments. You're constantly refining yourself and refining your life. -- Sheryl Crow
It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification. -- Billy Graham
What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality? -- Rebecca Goldstein
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 good. -- John D. Rockefeller
An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. -- Adrienne Rich
Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated. -- Joni Rodgers
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 in progress. -- Francis Frangipane
It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times. -- Ivanka Trump
I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment. -- Sara Coleridge
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 the purification of destruction. -- Charles Brent
On woman Nature did bestow two eyes, Like Hemian's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise And wary heads, made rare by art's refining. -- Robert Greene
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, will change our very natures. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I do make my own brushes and have done so for many years. I'm constantly refining the designs, trying new materials, re-configuring other brushes - all in my never-ending quest for the perfect brush. -- James Nares
What oil companies don't want you to know is that refineries use a huge amount of electricity in refining gasoline. And that's usually not even figured into reports about gas cars' overall energy use. -- Chris Paine
There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that. -- Roy Lichtenstein
We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us. -- A. Theodore Tuttle

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