#refining

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

#comedy #comic #course #did #fame

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.

#criticize #improving #keep #life #little

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

— Neil Diamond

#favorite #lot #lyrics #refining #song

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

#amending #continual #deeds #defending #democracy

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

#difficult #end #fiction #fiction writer #figure

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#long #long period #made #measurements #period

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

— Swoosie Kurtz

#getting #honing #me #notes #part

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

#book #editing #few #gave #go

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

#connections #doing #excited #get #holy

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#becomes #discipline #fire #refining #talent