Brin-Jonathan Butler

Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?

American Journalist

Kevin Spacey

When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene, it can become very, very razor sharp and really clean and really efficient and simple. And sometimes it takes twenty-five years to learn how to be simple.

American Actor

Miguel Sapochnik

Making movies is all about compromise, negotiation, and sacrifice, but the process helps you distill what's really important to you, and once you have identified what those these things are for any particular sequence, you hold onto them and don't let them go.

English Director

Beck

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

American Musician

Terry Goodkind

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

American Writer

Julian Bream

Your experience of life is to a large part distilled into your performing. As you grow older, you concentrate on aspects of music that you perhaps only touched on earlier.

British Musician

David Leitch

I think in the 'Deadpool' franchise, the writers are really good at distilling the good stuff and applying that to the material in this universe.

Meena Harris

If I were to distill my household, it was a passion for social justice and a love for food and laughter.

American Lawyer

Edward Albee

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

American Dramatist

Gwendolyn Brooks

American Poet

Distil refers to a specific method used to purify liquids, often performed in a lab.

Technical Process

The process of distilling always involves heating the liquid first and then cooling it to collect the pure form.

Heating and Cooling

Distil used abstractly means summarizing information to its essence.

Abstract Use

You can distil complex theories into easier concepts for better understanding.

Synthesize Knowledge

Distil in chemistry refers to separating substances based on differences in their volatilities.

Chemistry Term

This type of distilling is done using specialized equipment like a distillation apparatus.

Special Equipment

Used literarily, distil can evoke images of a slow, deliberate process or feeling.

Literary Imagery

It's often used to describe the slow emergence of sweat, tears, or other liquids in expressive ways.

Emotive Descriptions

 and each lesson will help you master a discreet presentation skill. First, you'll learn how to identify, develop and distill your best ideas. Next, you'll learn how to prepare yourself for presenting those ideas. And finally, you'll learn a variety of techniques that'll help you deliver your talk

Master the art of public...

 The tree has to be infected with a certain fungus, which turns this usually pale wood into a dark resinous fibre, also known as agarwood. The whole process can take up to 100 years in the wild. The agarwood is then fermented and distilled to create the distinct oud fragrance.

Is Your Perfume Made...

 and I put them in a solvent. And then I distill it from very traditional ways, like with glassware. There's something so inherently sensual about smell. I think in the current landscape that we're in, it's really important to come back to these sensual experiences.

Reprogramming Perception...

 is just the music of everyday life. It's all the anthems and dance crazes and ballads and marches. But what classical music does is to distill all of these musics down, to condense them to their absolute essence, and from that essence create a new language,

Michael Tilson Thomas:...

 beyond their tenure. And then, when I returned to work full time, in this role, I joined with wonderful colleagues who were also interested in these questions. Now, from all this, I distilled the characteristics of leaders who are thriving

What it takes to be a...

 Which is to say, of course, it was badly designed. And nowhere are the effects of bad design more heartbreaking or the opportunity for good design more compelling than at the end of life, where things are so distilled and concentrated.

What really matters at...

 its wax and gold, its humor, its proverbs that illuminate the wisdom and follies of life. But there's also this melodicism, a musicality built right in. And I find this distilled most clearly in what I like to call emphatic language --

Meklit Hadero: The...

 welcome you to my city to my country to this wonderful place of British Columbia and just as landscape holds the key to character culture Springs from a spirit of place Margaret Atwood said that if you wanted to distill the essence of

A history of intertwining...

 For her, life had distilled itself into one the escape of her family and a new life in Australia. It was inconceivable to her that she would not succeed. So after a four-year saga that defies fiction,

Tan Le: My immigration...

 If you could help me with that it would be fantastic. This is a liter of oil. This bottle of oil, distilled over a hundred million years of geological time,