Sophistication Quotes
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.
As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life
One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so they will learn how to behave.
No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.
With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.
Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.
I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.
All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.
We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition.
Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.
It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.
Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.
The driver of the power of intelligent systems is the knowledge the systems have about their universe of discourse, not the sophistication of the reasoning process the systems employ.
I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.
The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.
Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.
My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.
There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.
