Best Sharpen Quotes
115 Sharpen quotes by 100 unique authors
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If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.
— Italo Calvino
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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…
— Alan Turing
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Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their…
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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It is important as a mentalist to notice small things about people... little things such as being able to tell if someone is right or…
— Banachek
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When earth life is over and things appear in their true perspective, we shall more clearly see and realize what the Lord and his prophets…
— Marion G. Romney
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The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of…
— Tris Speaker
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Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the…
— Harvey Mackay
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It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the…
— Robley Wilson
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Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting…
— Keith Henson
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In Nigeria, the hopes of millions have been pinned on me. Everything I do is under the spotlight. If they want to sell papers, they…
— Hafsat Abiola
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There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one…
— Roger Schank
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
— Stephen Covey
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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…
— A. E. Housman
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But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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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.…
— Daniel H. Pink
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We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil.
— Robin S
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Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.
— Unknown Author
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There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.
— Ze Frank
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The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all…
— Polly Toynbee
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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…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are…
— Aesop
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Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.
— Simon Sinek
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Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen…
— Barack Obama
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