Refining Quotes

• 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

  Hearing, Trouble, Deaf

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• Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Enlightenment, Body

  "Inspire! What Great Leaders Do" by Lance Secretan, (p. 45), 2004.

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• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Beautiful, Truth

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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• The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

  James Joyce

  Art, Invisible, Creation

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916).

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• The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

  Robert Delaunay

  Eye, Mind, Consciousness

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• The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Knowledge, Inner Peace

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• Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

  Timothy Keller

  Fire, Suffering, Walks

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.16, Penguin

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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 the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Class, Nomenclature

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• Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love

  Kabir Helminski

  Love Is, Soul, Important

  Kabir Edmund Helminski (1992). “Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness and the Essential Self”, Tarcher

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• Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Faith, Religious, Pain

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• To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.

  Mark Hart

  Love, Forgiveness, Patience

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• Snow is the beginning and the end of everything.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Snow, Ends, Living Happily

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.191, Macmillan

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• 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

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Jon Gordon from Nov 30, 2015

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• 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

  Art, Office, Grace

  Eliza Wood Farnham (1864). “Woman and Her Era”, p.122

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• Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

  T. S. Eliot

  Helping, Language, Should

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• Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Views, Democracy

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• 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

  Giving, Interviews, Chance

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• 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

  Technology, Thinking, Sound

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• 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

  Covered Up, Strange, Consciousness

  Isaac Rosenberg (1979). “The collected works of Isaac Rosenberg: poetry, prose, letters, paintings, and drawings”

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• 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

  Keys, Piano, Trying

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• The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

  Paul Tournier

  Mind, Vulnerable, Subtle

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• 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

  Dark, Earth, Chess

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

  Epicurus

  Life, Pleasure, Ends

  "Briefing" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Eye, Men, Presence Of Mind

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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• It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Friendship, Best Friend, Wise

  "The Pure and the Impure". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1932.

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