Refining Quotes - Page 2

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

  Paul Tournier

  Mind, Vulnerable, Subtle

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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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• The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

  Washington Irving

  Condolences, Mind, Sorrow

  Washington Irving (1840). “The Works of Washington Irving”, p.245

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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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• 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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• God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  God, Faith, Christian

  Joni Eareckson Tada, Steven Estes (1997). “When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty”, p.121, Harper Collins

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• We have received too much from God to allow ourselves opportunities for unbelief. We have received too many gifts and privileges to allow a grumbling, murmuring heart to disqualify us of our destiny. In contrast, 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

  Struggle, Heart, Opportunity

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• 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

  Book, Reading, Character

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• 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

  Commitment, Slavery, Problem

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• 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

  Art, Thinking, Stories

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• A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ... Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.

  Allan Bloom

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Egalitarianism

  Allan David Bloom (1993). “Love and Friendship”

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• 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

  Technology, Assessment, Oil

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• When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and an aristocratic social organization on the other, we get light on the opposition between technical scientific studies and refining literary studies. We have before us the need of overcoming this separation in education if society is to be truly democratic.

  John Dewey

  Light, Hands, Organization

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.292, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.

  Neil Diamond

  Song, Blue, My Favorite

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• 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

  May, Tests, Way

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• 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

  Relationship, People, Connections

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• 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

  Failure, Adversity, Blessing

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• 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

  Learning, Skills, Important

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• I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.

  Steve Pavlina

  Believe, Goal, Principles

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• 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

  Play, People, Sound

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• 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

  Ridiculous, Amount

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• 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

  Democracy, Needs, Deeds

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• 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

  Years, Four, Comedy

  "Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life". Book by Steve Martin, www.npr.org. November 20, 2007.

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• To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Fun, Real, Play

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• 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, or a hundred variations on a single line sometimes. I work on the process of refining low-grade ore. I get maybe a couple of nu ggets of gold out of 50 tons of dirt. It is tough for me. No, I am not inspired.

  James Dickey

  Couple, Writing, Trying

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