Top 168 Sharpen Quotes & Sayings

Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom.

Want to accomplish something, any-damn-thing? Sharpen your political skills!

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.

Meditation helps sharpen the mind.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

There's nothing like desperation to sharpen your sense of focus.

Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.

If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.

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.

Tactical and technical awareness can only improve and sharpen with time.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

You mind your tongue!” “Oh, I do,” I said. “I sharpen it every evening on your name.

The future will be good for those who work hard and sharpen their skills.

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!

Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.

During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery Schools discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase and sharpen their innate psychic abilities.

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it.

The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.

Suppose you were to come upon someone in the woods working feverishly to saw down a tree. "What are you doing?" you ask. "Can't you see?" comes the impatient reply. "I'm sawing down this tree." "You look exhausted!" you exclaim. "How long have you been at it?" "Over five hours," he returns, "and I'm beat! This is hard work." 'Well, why don't you take a break for a few minutes and sharpen that saw?" you inquire. "I'm sure it would go a lot faster." "I don't have time to sharpen the saw," the man says emphatically. "I'm too busy sawing!"

Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil.

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.

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.

There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.

It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

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.

The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

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.

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.

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children.

When I don't play international cricket, I sharpen my skills at the NCA.

In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like crickets. I have to sharpen up on that.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

Meditation will sharpen your senses and your awareness.

Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.

I can get the physical exercise done with practice and staying in shape. But you've got to sharpen the mental side.

Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all sharpening teachers. As we grow older, to stay sharp we must find new grindstones to whet and sharpen our potential and keep us at our brightest, most penetrating best.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.