Take the best that exists and make it better.
Simplify, simplify.
Strive always to improve the instrument.
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.
Cut your manuscript ruthlessly but never throw anything away: it's amazing how often a discarded scene or description, which wouldn't fit in one place, will work perfectly later.
Defense was one thing I was really able to work at and get better.
We can all improve.
I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice.
You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.
I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.
If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.
Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.
But satire, ever moral, ever new, Delights the reader and instructs him, too. She, if good sense refine her sterling page, Oft shakes some rooted folly of the age.
When you play, you get an opportunity to hone your craft.
Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.
Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.
You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.
All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.
If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
