Top 64 Quotes About Polishing
#1. Every copywriter knows what it is to struggle with a copy for hours, for days - fixing it, polishing it, rearranging it. We have all been quilty of leaving the headline until the last and the spending half and hour on it - or perhaps only ten minutes.
John Caples
#3. Decisions are beautiful. They are the evidence of thought and care. Decisions are the polishing cloths of life.
Augusten Burroughs
#4. There was something in him, lighter than ego but darker than insecurity, that needed constant buffing, polishing, waxing.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#5. People say i am a genius. I might be one but i am not the only one. There are many other Pakistani girls and boys like me. All those gems need, is a little bit of polishing. And I will do it. That's my aim
Arfa Karim
#6. I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.
Amy Winehouse
#7. Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.
Michel De Montaigne
#8. Washing your car and polishing it all up is a never failing sign of rain.
Kin Hubbard
#9. You'll learn that the key to a great book is editing - grinding, buffing, and polishing - not writing.
Guy Kawasaki
#10. Only the tango has continued to enjoy undiminished favor for more than twenty years in spite of polishing and refinement. To be sure, it is no pure Negro dance and owes its best qualities to the unusual dance talents of the Spaniards.
Curt Sachs
#11. I can't get clean." "That's because you're polishing a diamond. How much more brilliant do you want it to shine, my lovely?
Kristen Ashley
#12. The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
Henry David Thoreau
#13. Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.
Leo Tolstoy
#14. I have a pretty fresh delivery. I feel that I am probably more of a dramatic actor, but I'm also a comedian. Every day I am polishing up my skills.
Tone Bell
#15. They were young; time hadn't yet rubbed at them, polishing their differences and sharpening their opinions ...
Kate Morton
#16. The stones of a river start out rough, but with the current continually bumping and polishing them, they end up being beautiful.
Swami Satchidananda
#17. I'm a free spirit. A spirit that evolves. I'm a diamond. I'm just refining it. Polishing it. Glossing it up.
Simeon Rice
#18. People are so busy polishing their past, that they forget to paint their future.
Himanshu Vassanpal
#19. Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.
Colleen McCullough
#20. The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.
Orison S. Marden
#22. The one ring road around the airfield is paved, but heavily rutted and potholed. Every few days a street-sweeper makes its way around, polishing the rutted surface with brushes and water.
Glenn Dean
#23. Beware of those who are too focused with polishing and beautifying their outer shells. They lack true substance to understand that genuine beauty is reflected from the heart that resides inside.
Suzy Kassem
#24. He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#25. Children love to polish brass and silver, then move on to polishing their own shoes.
Tim Seldin
#26. Stories and objects share something, a patina ... Perhaps patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed ... But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing.
Edmund De Waal
#28. Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool.
David Foster Wallace
#29. A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.
Confucius
#30. The Ford Motor Co. should stand for something more than cars and trucks. There is a Ford way of doing things that we cannot lose ... We need to be continuously polishing that Ford oval.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#31. Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.
Gautama Buddha
#32. I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
Dean Koontz
#33. My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.
Ron Moody
#34. Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!
Piers Anthony
#35. In fact, one might make the case that New York would not have shone without its legions of contrary devils polishing the lights of goodness with their inexplicable opposition and resistance.
Mark Helprin
#36. There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.
Raymond Chandler
#37. John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.
Judy Johnson
#38. I'm still rough around the edges and need a lot of polishing.
Tyson Chandler
#39. I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.
David Wojnarowicz
#40. I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.
Dean Koontz
#41. A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.
Henry David Thoreau
#42. Ten times as much polishing is definitely not ten times as good. Whether you're polishing a piece of furniture or an idea, the benefits diminish quickly. The polishing turns into stalling.
Seth Godin
#43. You have to keep on with a house, day after day, I think. Heating, cleaning, opening and closing windows, making sounds to fill the silence, cooking and washing up, laundering and polishing. As soon as you stop, there may as well never have been any life at all. A house dies as quickly as a body.
Helen Dunmore
#44. I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.
Jens Lekman
#45. Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
B.C. Forbes
#46. Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.
Stefan G. Bucher
#47. If you ask me what I'd rather be doing, well, I'd rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch.
Dick Dale
#48. No, you just keep polishing your fangs or whatever you guys do in there.
Jayde Scott
#49. I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.
Nancy Lancaster
#50. Praise be to God, Who has so disposed matters that pleasant literary anecdotes may serve as an instrument for the polishing of wits and the cleansing of rust from our hearts.
Ahmad Al-Tifashi
#51. As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.
Henry David Thoreau
#52. The trouble is, we are incurable sentimentalists. We insist on makin over historical characters to suit our preconceived notions of what they should be, chipping, sandpapering, and polishing each personality until it assumes what we consider the proper contour and color.
Nancy Byrd Turner
#53. Hmmm," you muse out loud. Your voice is deep and carnal, a sound which sends new surges of desire rushing to my sex. "These balls are awfully dusty - if only I knew a little slut who was good at polishing balls ...
Felicity Brandon
#54. Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.
Kanye West
#55. I am like a huge rough stone ... and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in contact with something else, striking with accelerated force ... thus I will become a smooth and polished shaft in the quiver of the Almightly.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#56. A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.
Herbert Hoover
#57. Here's my lesson to you: Don't wish for a knight in shining armor. You'll just end up spending most of your time doing lots of polishing. And that armor tarnishes faster than any other substance on earth; instead, spend that time on yourself.
Christine Zolendz
#58. MERCER USED TO PASS THE TIME, during his post-grad months of flipping burgers out on Route 17, by polishing his opinions on life and literature for that future date when they would grace the pages of The Paris Review.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#59. One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.
Kresley Cole
#61. Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness.
Rumi
#62. Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
Nirmalananda
#63. I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.
Andy Behrman
#64. And what is success? Success is setting goals, making a definite plan and setting out on the journey to accomplish that plan without allowing anything to stop you. Success is finding every facet of yourself and polishing it till it shines
Chloe Thurlow
