Refining Quotes

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.

I always like to mix it up. It`s like anything. If you`re eating pasta for a week, eventually, you crave something else. A balanced diet of different roles and different stories and movies - I think it`s the way to stay healthy artistically and career wise. It does a funny thing because you`re not refining one way of seeing you. That`s one way to have a career. You can make a persona, corner a market, and make yourself almost a thing. You can use that and that can be interesting iconographical but I still am that actor who likes to bend myself to the material rather than find material to support some idea of who I am or some persona that I`ve made, or some mask that I`ve made. - On his career.

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.

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.

Ultimately, the bill may rest on a shaky premise, as Clean Air Act permitting provisions seem to have only a marginal effect on decisions by oil companies to invest in new refining capacity, ... Industry and government analysts alike agree that profit margins are the most significant factor, and record profits from high gasoline prices have encouraged a major investment in added refining capacity. Projects already reported or announced are expected to add nearly 600,000 b/d to our existing capacity over the next several years.

Our much improved earnings resulted largely from the strength of refining margins during the quarter,

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

The use of highly fuel-efficient clean diesel engines is a mandates free way of making our existing domestic refining and oil production go further.

The Americans . . . are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.

You can just see it. (Quarterback) Mike Lomas and the rest of the guys on offense have a great grasp of what we?re trying to do because they haven?t had to learn a new system. They?re working on refining what they know instead of learning a new offense.

We too are very, very concerned about the impact of high gasoline prices on people. There are some steps that can and should be taken.... But waiving the Clean Air Act is not one of them. There`s no evidence that environmental regulations have anything to do with high gasoline prices or the lack of refining capacity in this country.

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.