Hone Quotes

#1. I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

Charles Lamb

#2. I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.

Joe Budden

#3. A good lather is half the shave.

William Hone

#4. I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

James Blake

#5. Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.

Gautama Buddha

#6. I think, retrospectivety helps to hone your ideas for future projects. I like it.

Seamus McGarvey

#7. Hone your writing skills as if they were your finest weapons of war. For in the literary arena, your pen will truly be your sword.

Max Hawthorne

#8. So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when you want it to. It saves your life. And then you're outraged when it cuts you accidentally. You see, knives don't switch off. And neither do people, not when you hone them to a fine edge.

Karen Traviss

#9. I swear his pheromones have my freaking name written on them. They hone in and attack.

Carrie Jones

#10. Immortality is not as much of a gift as mortals would believe. It can breed monsters that even you would be sick to learn about. Imagine the sadists you've encountered - and then imagine them with millennia to hone their craft and warped desires.

Sarah J. Maas

#11. The only way to learn and hone your craft is by working hard and writing regularly.

Darren Shan

#12. A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

Jon Meacham

#13. And so Ethan and I orbit each other. Get on with things. Learn the art of pretending. Hone our craft to lie to others as skillfully as we lie to ourselves.

Leisa Rayven

#14. There is no doubt that directing television has helped hone my directing skills. What television teaches you is to be efficient and to think on your feet. You have to adhere to strict deadlines and budget constraints.

Emilio Estevez

#15. I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft.

Colin Trevorrow

#16. When they would spar, Calic held nothing back, as if he possessed a deep rage clawing for release. He demonstrated a ferocity Sebastian had never seen the likes of. Sebastian had the same rage bubbling inside him. However, he was able to hone it differently by focusing on the survival of his crew

Kiersten Fay

#17. I feel fortunate that there was a place like the CFL where I could hone my skill and become a consistent football player and have a nice career.

Darren Flutie

#18. An extraordinarily rare ability is in your possession. Hone the skills so you effectively utilize your gift. As we speak and as you wile away your time, the aswang is preparing to strike again. Lives are at stake!

L.Z.Marie

#19. Grief is a hone to a hard mind.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Malcolm McDowell

#21. As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don't ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better.

Homer Hickam

#22. From experience I can say that we can make our nation corruption free. Only promises won't help ... Irade Nek Hone Chahiye.

Narendra Modi

#23. You just do as many shows as you can to hone what it is you're working on.

Patton Oswalt

#24. When I got to write for the 'Battlefield' record, it was almost therapeutic. I had gone through a few things in the two years prior and it was really nice to take those thoughts and emotions and get them out. I definitely want to hone that side of my artistry.

Jordin Sparks

#25. What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.

Maury Yeston

#26. Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

Paul Ryan

#27. implies that you are embarking on your own journey to hone your skills and expand your horizons. There is nothing more "engineering" than that. Organization

Cory Berg

#28. The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

John Frusciante

#29. Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting ways to do something differently or how to improve.

Alan Zweibel

#30. As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

Idina Menzel

#31. I've discovered I prefer to prepare a few notes or actually write the speech so I can really hone it down to hopefully be entertaining, try and get a laugh at least by the second line, and then say what you need to say.

Geoffrey Rush

#32. Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

Ice Cube

#33. It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I figured out early on that you gotta find your own strengths and hone them rather than trying to emulate something that impresses you.

Paul Banks

#34. When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

Blair Underwood

#35. The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.

Bob Newhart

#36. Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are lots of techniques they had not thought about before.

Robert D. Hare

#37. Discover your strengths and then hone them and be who you are meant to be.

Liz Marshall

#38. Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

Kip Winger

#39. Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

John C. Maxwell

#40. The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts.

Marlene Caroselli

#41. A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.

Sylvia Plath

#42. When God gives us a talent it is our responsibility to hone it for His purpose and glory

Yoshiko Sakurai

#43. Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

Tim Ferriss

#44. I think the more you hone your voice, take risks and talk about things that matter, the better chance you have of getting into the realm of the philosophers of stand up. But you have to be funny.

Ted Alexandro

#45. A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

Carl Reiner

#46. College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.

Baratunde Thurston

#47. You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

Diane Warren

#48. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

Annie Dillard

#49. Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can't exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can't exist on a diet without it, either.

David Levithan

#50. By starting with the easy things first and leaving the hardest for last, you can gradually hone your decision-making skills, so that by the end, it seems simple.

Marie Kondo

#51. You have to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. I'm always comfortable being uncomfortable. And to be comfortable being uncomfortable, I have to hone my discipline, which to me is doing what I have to do, but also doing it like I love it.

Mike Tyson

#52. They committed murder, it is true; but their situation may have rendered it inevitable.

Philip Hone

#53. I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably.

Shannyn Sossamon

#54. An artist's work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific that they can only be your own.

Teresita Fernandez

#55. I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays.

Suzanne Collins

#56. John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'.

William Hone

#57. You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.

Geddy Lee

#58. Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is close to my heart, and it's fun to write, and when something's fun to write you don't think about what statement you're trying to make or what genre you're trying to hone in on.

Rachel Bloom

#59. I was very excited to hone in on John Goodman. Casting John first really set the tone. He's very good at being terrifying and being hilarious, and I loved the idea of that character not being merely 'moustache-twirly'. I enjoyed being scared by him.

Dan Trachtenberg

#60. Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down.

Joe Madureira

#61. What she wanted was to donate to the world a good Maud Martha. That was the offering, the bit of art, that could not come from any other. She would polish and hone that.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#62. I've done TV, but never where you're given this much time to live with a character, to study the tone and hone it and repair stuff, to go back and watch old episodes and go, "Oh no, that's a misstep. That's a victory. I should do more of that, less of that."

Vera Farmiga

#63. Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.

Travis Bradberry

#64. We believe that people will use real-time fMRI feedback to hone cognitive strategies that will increase activation of brain regions.

Christopher DeCharms

#65. I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

Olivia D'Abo

#66. Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

Robert Greene

#67. I'm glad I went through the training because I've met such great mentors and lifelong friends/collaborators along the way. Also, any training (acting, movement, dance, piano, singing, etc) allowed me to hone my skills and find an inner space of self-generating creativity.

Jade Hassoune

#68. The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

Steve Kanaly

#69. You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

Christopher Cross

#70. As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.

Sharon Salzberg

#71. Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it.

Ogwo David Emenike

#72. When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

Laini Taylor

#73. Working with limited resources is an excellent way to hone skills that will serve you well for the rest of your career. You will prioritize profitability from the start.

Jon Oringer

#74. The whole of New York is rebuilt about once in ten years.

Philip Hone

#75. I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

Arthur Godfrey

#76. Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.

Jimmy Smits

#77. Novels
which, after all, are training grounds for responding to the world, imaginative sanctuaries in which to hone and test our ethical judgments and choices.

William Deresiewicz

#78. Obstacles do not appear in your way in order to stop you. Rather, they appear in order to strengthen and hone you and your plans. They are not your enemy. They are your secret ally, but only if you treat them as friendly forces of nature.

Anodea Judith

#79. I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

Kara DioGuardi

#80. Let us continue to hone and hone the methods by which man hangs his fellow man and be done, once and for all, with any hypocrisy.

Sergio De La Pava

#81. No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.

John C. Maxwell

#82. Cooking classes are a great way to hone your skills, learn new recipes, and meet like-minded friends. Spending time in the kitchen with people who love to cook as much as you do is fun and educational.

Homaro Cantu

#83. Don't imitate. Find your own writing voice and hone it until it is yours alone.

Christopher Holliday

#84. Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters.

Ron Carlson

#85. But rather than relying on a thin, idealized hope that we will all one day just get along, we can approach conflict resolution as an art form that we are privileged to develop and hone.

Diane Musho Hamilton

#86. The Thin Man
I indulge myself
In rich refusals.
Nothing suffices.
I hone myself to
This edge. Asleep, I
Am a horizon.

Donald Justice

#87. These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

Philip Hone

#88. It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

Khaled Hosseini

#89. Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#90. Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.

Jim Rohn

#91. I think it's fair to say I am a writer. I'm using this journal to get better: to hone my skills, to collect details and observations. To show don't tell and all that other writerly crap.

Gillian Flynn