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It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream.
Danny Meyer
Business
Stream
Job
Values
Waters
Guide
About
Excellence
Clear
Performance
Refine
Improve
Owner
Any
Lack
Want
Cloudy
Us
Confusing
Creates
Business Owner
Help
Navigate
Swiftly
Company
Flowing
Core
Core Values
If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.
Jim Mattis
History
You
Yourself
People
Past
Enough
Give
Similar
Learn
Read
Does
Dealt
How
Answers
Refine
Questions
Situations
In The Past
Patterns
Ask
Successfully
Help
Biography
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
Adam Savage
You
Mind
Long
Remove
Thinking
Too
Variables
More
Take
Outside
Like
Likely
Deadline
Deadlines
Box
Materials
Refine
Exotic
Closer
Processes
Start
A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.
Adena Friedman
Better
Leader
Willing
Idea
New
She
Learns
New Information
Hears
Refine
Malleable
Listens
Information
Views
Who
Actions
Her
In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300 pounds and crazy to get anyone's attention. Then, you can refine yourself. I always knew under those 300 pounds and tracksuits was a refined, slim, dignified man.
Al Sharpton
Crazy
You
Man
Yourself
Dignified
Those
Slim
Pounds
Knew
Attention
Lights
New
Always
Got
Refine
Refined
Square
Times
Times Square
Get
York
New York
Anyone
Then
Competing
I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it.
Amy Hempel
Day
You
Wonderful
Envy
Wait
Other
Back
Way
Those
Out
Tell
Kind
Rush
Never
Know
Go
Refine
Revision
Than
Done
Maybe
Just
Happened
Story
Then
Working
Less
Who
Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.
Anouska Hempel
Learning
Design
Pedestrian
Way
Fact
Bland
Along
Sounds
Repeat
Reverse
Refine
In Fact
Keep
I must refine my training every day to give myself the best opportunity to achieve my dreams during the Olympic Games in Rio.
Ashton Eaton
Dreams
Best
Myself
Day
Every Day
Training
Opportunity
Achieve
Every
Must
Rio
Give
Refine
Games
Olympic
Olympic Games
I think I just need more time to refine my skills, and I can be a dominant pass rusher.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins
Time
Think
More
Pass
Refine
Dominant
Just
Skills
Need
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.
Bruce Feiler
Positive
Alone
Family
You
Will
Thrive
Odds
Difficult
Increase
Back
Ability
Bottom
Bottom Line
Generations
Bounce
Come
Line
Refine
May
Want
Story
Happier
Create
Act
Your
Many
Moments
I try to maintain an even tempo in all the games. Sometimes you play well and sometimes you get out. When you get out, you feel it is a wrong shot. Most players in tough situations play shots that could be out, but over time you refine that and give yourself the best chance of performing, the more you play in such situations.
Dinesh Karthik
Time
Best
You
Yourself
Sometimes
Try
Tough
Out
Tempo
Give
More
Could
Wrong
Feel
Maintain
Over
Performing
Most
Well
Refine
Get
Situations
Shot
Shots
Games
Even
Play
Players
Chance
I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want them to look like plastic dolls.
Douglas Kirkland
Change
Will
Somebody
Way
Minor
Totally
Like
Look
Dolls
Refine
Want
Them
Plastic
All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We'd continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted.
Douglas Wood
Partner
Responses
Fine
Fine Line
Until
Audience
Material
Line
Continue
Refine
Improvisation
Via
Front
Scripted
Created
Based
Set
We have an opportunity with the Model S to refine the design language, the surfacing, and all aspects of functionality.
Franz von Holzhausen
Opportunity
Language
Design
Refine
Model
Aspects
Functionality
On February 19th, Dr. Collip found that he was unable to refine the extract by his method and was unable to keep up his supply to the wards. During the following six weeks, or longer, no extract was available for clinical tests. I believe the reason for this to be that Collip, wishing to keep his process a secret, had not kept careful records.
Frederick Banting
Believe
Extract
Secret
Unable
Following
Records
February
Weeks
Had
He
Supply
Longer
Wishing
Method
Clinical
His
Tests
Refine
Up
Six
Process
Available
Reason
Keep
Found
Dr
Kept
Careful
Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.
Ian Mcewan
Art
Tools
Our
Giants
Arguing
Writers
Never
Idea
Make
Am
Least
Scientists
Discoveries
Refine
Improves
Just
Arts
Shoulders
Stand
Playing
I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.
Isaac Rosenberg
Life
Myself
Strange
Will
Corner
Extraordinary
Later
Poetry
New
Leave
Covered
Conditions
Refine
Up
Itself
Saturate
Consciousness
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.
James Ellroy
Work
Myth
Every
Interview
Puncture
Response
Critical
About
Give
Built
Acclaim
Refine
Up
Created
Chance
The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.
Joshua Bell
Best
Interpretation
Way
Out
Best Way
Performing
Refine
Getting
The assumption is simply that I hit on all the things I've hit on so far by accident, that my talent is just this raw thing that pours out of me, and then white people feel like they have to come in and contain it, refine it, and bring it to the place where it can been released.
Kelela
Me
People
Accident
White
Assumption
Released
Out
Raw
Simply
Contain
Feel
Talent
Come
Like
Been
Refine
Hit
Just
Where
Place
Far
Then
Thing
Things
Bring
A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.
Narendra Modi
Character
National
Rebuild
Occasion
National Character
Refine
Festival
What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.
Ryan Stiles
Dark
Sit
Earth
Ruling
Someday
Chess
Refine
Taping
Room
Plans
The text illustrates the pictures - it provides a connective tissue for me. I usually refine the text last, partly because pictures are harder to do, so it's easier to edit words - I use text as grout in between the tiles of the pictures.
Shaun Tan
Me
Words
Easier
Between
Pictures
Partly
Because
Edit
Provides
Refine
Text
In-Between
Tissue
Use
Harder
Illustrate
Last
A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.
Tyler Cowen
Life
Experience
World
Meal
Negation
Our
Pleasures
Unnecessary
Bad
Unpleasant
About
More
Share
Learn
Refine
Than
Taste
Just
Rewarding
Rewarding Experience
Wasted
Chance
Mediocre
The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
Yves Behar
Believe
Innovative
Ways
Complex
Possible
Finding
Pursued
Advance
Make
Making
Reduce
Truly
Refine
Affordable
Sustainability
Notion
Less
Things
I always say my Christianity and my virginity don't limit options. I think that they refine my options.
Yvonne Orji
Think
Christianity
Virginity
Say
Limit
Always
Refine
Options
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