Top 163 Sharper Quotes & Sayings

You want a CEO that understands they need to build a team around them that's sharper and smarter than they are.

For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Once a week, someone tells me to toughen up, get a sharper edge. I don't do that.

The light comes brighter from the east; the cawOf restive crows is sharper on the ear.

No weapon is sharper than will.

The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage.

When you are playing regularly, you feel a lot sharper on the pitch.

It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an attache in the diplomatic service.

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

I'm actually one of the sharper tools in the box that haven't been in the streets like that, but I have family members, close loved ones, that that's all they know.

All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better.

I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.

Dinner at college high table is one of the legendary experiences of England. I could remember keenly each one I had attended; the repartee is sharper than the cutlery.

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

By doing something repeatedly, one's mind becomes sharper. It teaches you dedication.

I seem to get the best out of myself when the pressure's on. My senses are heightened. I feel sharper. I do better things.

Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.

If you are a creative person, then your mind gets sharper with age. My mind is very sharp, and I am happy for that.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you’re lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.

What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do next begins to present itself to me in terms of theme. And I would say over about the next six to eight months, usually as I'm out power walking in the morning, or when I'm cooking at night, or when I'm driving in the car, the people who might embody those themes take on a sharper and sharper focus. And there comes this sort of critical mass moment when they actually start to do things in my head.

I think cancer came into my life as a gift. My vision is sharper, my mind clearer, my perspective realigned.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger.

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

I believe that in intense conflict, far from becoming sharper, differences melt away.

Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged.

For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

That's what as an artist you always try to do. To try to be a sharper mind than the average person.

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become. The sharper men's weapons, The more trouble in the land.

There's a disconnect between my mind and my heart, but I feel the truth. They say when people lose their vision, their hearing comes sharper. I've lost part of my memory but maybe my intuition is stronger.

Walking in the morning improves my whole day. I think more clearly, my points of view are sharper, and I'm more decisive.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

Paranoia has a sharper taste if the danger is real.

Nothing makes men sharper than want.

At the Sharper Image store, I saw a body fat analyzer. Didn't that used to be called a mirror?

My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

Faster than the devil *times* Sharper than wind! That's the ultimate law of the hero!!

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

You can make your mind sharper, you can get sharper with time.

Daimonds are a girls best friend- they're sharper than knives

A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.

Violence of the tongue is very real- sharper than any knife.

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive.