Sharp Quotes

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Focus is scaryâ€”until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers… — Clayton Christensen
A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one — Ray Mears
Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists. — Yasmina Reza
Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but… — Randy Alcorn
The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester — Anne Perry
Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular… — Gerald Durrell
To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind. — Louis Zamperini
A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth,… — Plutarch
I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third… — Sunny Murray
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak… — Walter Isaacson
The Air Age faces mankind with a sharp choice - the choice between Winged Peace or Winged Death. It''s up to you. — Billy Bishop
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much — Whitfield Diffie
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce
Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds,… — Alberto Santos-Dumont
This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the… — Mark Twain
When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social… — Marie-Antoine Careme
Love sees sharply, hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time. — Sarah Brightman
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist… — Konrad Lorenz
A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Just as the pianist practices the most complicated pieces to improve the technique of his fingers, so too a grandmaster must keep his vision in… — Alexander Kotov

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