“If I had 6 h to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four of them sharpening my axe.” — Patrick Engebretson Copy Share Image
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds. — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils. — David Rees Copy Share Image
I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
I've been really surprised about a lot of the negative comments about artisanal pencil sharpening. Like, it really rubs some people the… — David Rees Copy Share Image
We can work on sharpening our prescribing practices, working with clinicians to ensure we're treating pain safely and effectively. — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity. — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending… — David Rees Copy Share Image
The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions. — Jiang Zemin Copy Share Image
Companies get into grooves and they keep sharpening what they are doing, when in fact what they really need to do sometimes… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a… — David Rees Copy Share Image
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are… — Rob Kall Copy Share Image
The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind,… — Lu Tong Copy Share Image
For me, shaping and sharpening knives is the perfect mix of a day of metal and woodwork, and seriously scratches my lifelong… — Brad Leone Copy Share Image
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You've been holding a machete waiting to cut your way through and into the place called Future. You have waited and waited… — Chuck Pierce Copy Share Image
As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured… — David Rees Copy Share Image
One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work,… — Common Copy Share Image
Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they… — Cornell Capa Copy Share Image
The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and… — Aesop Copy Share Image
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“The sharpening of the steel was less about the cutting edge of the blade than it was about the cutting edge of… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills. — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards… the rest of you should be sharpening your knives, — Dan Wieden Copy Share Image
During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals. — Brandon Jennings Copy Share Image
Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
