97 Sharpening Quotes
Following is our list of sharpening quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about sharpen the mind.
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Famous Sharpening Quotes
We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil. — Robin S
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. — Solomon
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. — Lao Tzu
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. — Lao Tzu
Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens another. — Bible Proverbs
Focus like a laser, not a flashlight — Michael Jordan
If you put in the work to sharpen the steel, it will eventually turn into needles. — Vietnamese Proverbs
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. — Dorothy Parker
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use. — Washington Irving
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. — George R. R. Martin
What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness. — Flann O'Brien
Channel your energy. Focus. — Carl Lewis
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
A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice. — Zoroaster
If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. — Danielle LaPorte
Short Sharpening Quotes
- Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln
- This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart. — Sakyong Mipham
- So may sharpen dull iron to bite. — Icelandic Proverbs
- Iron Sharpens Iron. — Bible Proverbs
- A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners. — Harlan Howard
- Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind. — Danica McKellar
- We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw. — Stephen Covey
- If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart. — Patience Strong
- If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax. — Abraham Lincoln
- I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. — Zora Neale Hurston
Iron Sharpen Iron Quotes
Spend time with people who know how to use their days well. Just as iron sharpens iron, positive people will inspire you to be positive. — Rihanna
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. — King Solomon
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another — Tim Tebow
If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron. — Jake M. Johnson
One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron. — Francis Collins
Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. — William Drummond
I like that stick of yours," he said. "It's a staff." Jem swung out to knock another automaton sideways. "Made by the Iron Sisters, only for Silent Brothers." [...] "Anyone can sharpen a stick." "It's a staff," Jem repeated, and saw Will's quicksilver smile out of the corner of his eye. — Cassandra Clare
Sharpen The Mind Quotes
Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw — Stephen Covey
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. — Helen Keller
A touch of the jitters sharpens the mind, gets the adrenaline flowing and helps you to focus. — Richard Branson
Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge. — Joseph Hall
Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body. — Laura Joh Rowland
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. — Helen Keller
The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a course - appears to be an excellent means of sharpening the mind and developing mental skills that are of general benefit. — Keith Devlin
Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material. — Anton Chekhov
Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization. — Samuel Reshevsky
Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
Pencil Sharpeners Quotes
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners! — Roald Dahl
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success. — Robert Benchley
I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God — Mother Teresa
Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. — Nora Ephron
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club? — Jerry Pournelle
Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth. — David Rees
Some people may be famous for creating a pencil sharpener. I'm famous for my tits. — Katie Price
It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and stab yourself in the aorta — Dave Barry
I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do. — Ice Cube
Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters. — Jacqueline Woodson
People Writing About Sharpening
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Lao Tzu |
1418 | 11725 |
 Bible Proverbs |
55 | 478 |
 Abraham Lincoln |
1225 | 20600 |
 Robin S |
27 | 65 |
 Solomon |
83 | 1115 |
 Michael Jordan |
269 | 5129 |
More Sharpening Quotes
October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side. — John Wesley
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control. — Alan Turing
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. — Confucius
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. — Edmund Burke
Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly. — Mem Fox
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. — A. E. Housman
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. — George Washington
Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
If you want people to perform better, you reward them, right? Bonuses, commissions, their own reality show. Incentivize them. [...] But that's not happening here. You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity. — Daniel H. Pink
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. — Frederick Lenz
I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, then use it as a drowning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself, totally. — Osho
Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer. — Michael Jackson
Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity. — Camille Paglia
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore. — Stefan Zweig
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave. — Leon Trotsky
People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy. — William Faulkner
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. — Lao Tzu
In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills. — Lilian Katz
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.". — Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context. — Stephen Covey
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends. — Marshall McLuhan
I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient. — Bruce Lee
Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment. — Ayi Kwei Armah
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