John C. Maxwell

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

American Clergyman

Frances Burney

I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

English Novelist

J-Hope

We've matured musically, as well as in the way we think. We've also developed a higher sense of responsibility. This has refined us and these developments are really being reflected in our music and our dance.

South Korean Musician

Katherine Helmond

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

American Actress

Laura Moser

With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes.

American Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

T. S. Eliot

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

American Poet

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.

American Businessman

Narendra Modi

A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

Indian Politician

Alvin Leung

It's important to learn from your mistakes and then to refine.

English Chef

Focuses on minor, gradual enhancements rather than major changes.

Small Improvements

Often used in the context of improving abilities or methods for better performance.

Skill Enhancement

Refinement suggests tweaking existing abilities, not starting from scratch.

Not Overhauling

In chemistry, it implies processing to increase the purity level.

Chemical Purity

Often linked to manufacturing or production, where raw materials are transformed.

Industrial Processes

Denotes minor adjustments to improve something that is already established.

Incremental Changes

Refining something can be an ongoing process that never completely finishes.

Continuous Process

Can indicate enhancing one’s cultural knowledge, manners, or sophistication.

Cultural Elegance

May suggest efforts to improve personal behaviors or outward appearance socially.

Personal Development

 is this. If you ask yourself, what's a cell trying to protect itself from when it becomes insulin resistant, the answer probably isn't too much food. It's more likely too much blood sugar. Now, we know that refined grains and starches elevate your blood sugar in the short run, and there's even reason to believe that sugar

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 can walk in the big dimensions that we all know about that's like the grid part but you could also access the tiny curled up dimension that's so small that we can't see with the naked eye or even with any of our most refined equipment but deeply tucked into the fabric of space itself the idea is there could be

String theory - Brian...

 and experiments going on throughout the world. My own view is that a basic income is not a panacea; it's not necessarily a plug-and-play solution, but rather, it's a place to start. It's an idea that we can build on and refine. For example, one thing that I have written quite a lot about

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 a gas which seeps up from the ground. We also refine naturally occurring radioactive ores to fuel nuclear power plants. Even bananas contain trace amounts of a radioactive potassium isotope. So if we live in a world of radiation, how can we escape its dangerous effects?

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 entire life in their room they never leave their room it says up here when life sucks might as well just stay in your room and live life there so what's the next we have to refined masculinity men have to step up to the plate they have to be available they have to make

The Demise of Guys PIPE...

 Now, in my research, I discovered there are two different kinds of doubt. There's self-doubt and idea doubt. Self-doubt is paralyzing. It leads you to freeze. But idea doubt is energizing. It motivates you to test, to experiment, to refine,

The surprising habits of...

 and also has the virtue of being true. Now, I want to emphasize that this new economics is not something I have personally imagined or invented. Its theories and models are being developed and refined in universities around the world

The dirty secret of...

 Every since its discovery, lithium has been found to be incredibly versatile including strengthening glass and refining metal alloys but probably the most popular use of lithium is in lithium batteries.

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 and have accepted some while rejecting others. We are continuing to refine, amend, and edit his ideas which have become foundations of the modern world.

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 they've discovered that the baurus or van gelder's bat not only takes prey on the wing but its refined sonar can even help it picture stationary insects