Matching your hat to your shoe to your bag, or your necklace to your earrings, has a tendency to look dated. Mixing up your accessories adds interest to an outfit, and can make you look much more modern and polished.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.
Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.
I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.
My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished.
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.
When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.
Imagine if the dinosaurs had tried picturing the rulers of their planet 100 million years hence. They'd undoubtedly envision these creatures as... dinosaurs! Conceiving of aliens as polished versions of ourselves is appealing, but unconvincing.