If I had 6 h to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four…

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

— Abraham Lincoln

If I''ve 8 hours to chop down a tree,I would spend 6 hours sharpening the axe.

— Vinesh

“If you ask me to cut down a tree I'll spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.”

— Abraham Lincoln

I could not chop down a tree if my life depended on it.

— Peter Falk

When you chop down a tree you can look at the rings and see what the tree's been through. That's what you can do…

— Xzibit

I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous,…

— Gabe Newell

One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work, and it…

— Common

It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult, instead of…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The sharpening of the steel was less about the cutting edge of the blade than it was about the cutting edge of the soul…

— Nelson DeMille

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out…

— Diane Johnson

I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.

— David Rees

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.

— Abraham Lincoln

We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all sharpening…

— Rob Kall

To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast…

— Charles Dickens