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When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball.
— Tris Speaker
We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
— Stephen Covey
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
— Edsger Dijkstra
But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.
— Ethan Hawke
mama, you taught me to look pretty but i can't anymore, and i am learning that's okay. i am learning to sharpen my teeth and rule kingdoms, instead.
— Arlen C.
What a martyr craves more than anything is a sword to fall on, so you sharpen the blade and hold it at just the right angle.
— Kevin Spacey
I'm about to sharpen up the engine a little.
— Robert M. Pirsig
I'm tired of being your scratching post," he growled. "From now on, sharpen your claws on someone else." - Bumblestripe
— Erin Hunter
We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.
— Joan Oliver Goldsmith
Great habits sharpen our thoughts and make us great.
— Debasish Mridha
The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-
— Samuel Rutherford
The same things that make you unique in this world, make you a target for the archers consumed by fear and jealousy.
— Jason E. Hodges
There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one's sense of what is real.
— Dan Simmons
Who would sharpen a point aginst the darkness of the world?
— William Golding
One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.
— Agatha Christie
Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.
— Sally Jenkins
In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.
— Lilian Katz
Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.
— Laura Joh Rowland
If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.
— Italo Calvino
Sharpen your sword daily , and let it serve your true master: YOU. You and the Master are one
— Vernon Kitabu Turner
By developing a habit of telling ourselves stories about what's going on around us, we learn to sharpen where our attention goes. These
— Charles Duhigg
In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.
— Eric Hoffer
Sharpen your mind with the beauty of knowledge and the tears of experience to be wise.
— Debasish Mridha
You can only sharpen a blade so far. In the end, it comes down to the quality of metal.
— Leigh Bardugo
It's iron that can sharpen iron; wood cannot do that.
— Israelmore Ayivor
I love travel, it promotes open-mindedness, and I believe that the interactions you have as you go places and meet people all sharpen the mind.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can't predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.
— Holly Robinson
A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
And, I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me. -Tris
— Veronica Roth
Nerves can be useful, as they sharpen you up, make you determined to try your hardest and do your best.
— Stephen Cole
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Potholes on the road of life sharpen our maneuverability skills
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali
Potholes on the road of life sharpen our maneuverability skills
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali
You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.
— Ed Bradley
I also knew that I was number one on the Yankees Cap hit parade. That settled me down. There's nothing like immident death to sharpen a guy's outlook.
— Jim Stewart
God has been faithful time and again to surround me with people that sharpen me and that make me better.
— TobyMac
Memories sharpen the past; it is reality that decays.
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.
— Sakyong Mipham
My Akri says that tragedy and adversity are the stones we sharpen our swords against ao that we can fight new battles.- Simi
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
We must take time out to sharpen the ax or we'll exhaust ourselves trying to fell trees with a blunt instrument.
— Ira Chaleff
I mean if I don't get started soon, how will I get the chance to sharpen my wits? It takes alot of training.
— Elaine Dundy
You mind your tongue!"
"Oh, I do," I said. "I sharpen it every evening on your name. — Franny Billingsley
"Oh, I do," I said. "I sharpen it every evening on your name. — Franny Billingsley
Half of me (pathetically) wanted to let him know I'd kept the faith; half of me wanted to get in the toolshed and sharpen me some stakes.
— Charlaine Harris
Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children.
— Timothy Dwight V
There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.
— Ze Frank
The best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.
— Ama Ata Aidoo
Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing
— Munia Khan
Let hardship sharpen your blade.
— Rainbow Rowell
I sometimes think that a little fear, a little hunger, might be good for us - sharpen our souls,
— Peter S. Beagle
Sometimes I've thought it's only our challenges that sharpen us, and change us, too - a mile-long runway and nineteen hundred pounds
— Paula McLain
Hard things don't always make life harder. It takes something hard to sharpen steel.
— Richard Paul Evans
Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Now, the edges of these memories sharpen.
I see the cracks in the studio floor beneath her feet,
The lack of turnout in her fifth position. — Stasia Ward Kehoe
I see the cracks in the studio floor beneath her feet,
The lack of turnout in her fifth position. — Stasia Ward Kehoe
You can only sharpen a blade so far", Kaz said as he joined them at the front of the church. "In the end, it comes down to the quality of the metal.
— Leigh Bardugo
Successful people use failures to sharpen their intuition by acknowledging mistakes for what they truly are - feedback.
— Gordana Biernat
Fasten your belts and sharpen your arrows, we're going for a hunt! I'm single again!
— Hamidreza Bagheri
If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.
— Patience Strong
I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
— Bear Grylls
(A writer's working space, Montaigne also believed, ought to have a good view of the cemetery; it tended to sharpen one's thinking.)
— Oliver Burkeman
First I brush my teeth and then I sharpen my tongue.
— Oscar Levant
Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.
— Simon Sinek
We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil.
— Robin S. Sharma
Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.
— Camille Paglia
Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.
— Jim Rohn
I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.
— David Rees
Need to sharpen my blade. Make it shiny, gleamy, and oh, so ... deadly.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'
— David Rees
We are built to walk. Not to SoulCycle and jog and hike. Walking is mental. You sharpen your thoughts and process your emotions.
— Caroline Kepnes
Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies.
— Keith Henson
Yes, when you are sharpened with the true information, you will be motivated to make impacts.
— Israelmore Ayivor