Quotes of Refining - somelinesforyou

“ Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. ”

- Roy L. Smith

“ Your ideas are like diamonds without the refining process, they are just a dirty rock, but by cutting away the impurities, they become priceless. ”

- Paul Kearly

“ Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. ”

- Willa Cather

“ 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

“ We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process e have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee… ”

- Yehudi Menuhin
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