Top 100 Quotes About Sharpens
#1. Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.
Robert McKee
#2. Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.
Susan Moody
#3. Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart
John Adams
#4. Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.
Steven Tyler
#5. A touch of the jitters sharpens the mind, gets the adrenaline flowing and helps you to focus.
Richard Branson
#6. If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.
Jake M. Johnson
#7. I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.
Craig Venter
#8. Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.
Marcus Luttrell
#10. Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. But everyone should try writing a little code, because it somehow sharpens the mind, right?
Jeff Atwood
#13. Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.
Og Mandino
#14. As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
Anonymous
#16. You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
Bear Grylls
#17. As iron sharpens iron, we need confrontation and truth from others to grow. No one likes to hear negative things about him or herself. But in the long run it may be good for us.
Henry Cloud
#18. Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.
Samuel Reshevsky
#19. Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.
Kevin Patterson
#20. Fear for your life sharpens your edge. Dread dulls it, think of the creep instead, stopping him.
Dean Koontz
#21. I suddenly realized that there's something about singing hymns with a large group of people that sharpens the senses remarkably. I stored this observation away for later use; it was a jolly good thing to know for anyone practicing the art of detection.
Alan Bradley
#22. The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.
Edgar Alwin Payne
#23. Floods, fires, earthquakes, disease, starvation, betrayal, isolation, murder.
What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us.
Rick Yancey
#24. Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#25. The enormous influence of novelty
the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment
is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.
John Ruskin
#26. As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
King Solomon
#27. The writer of Proverbs observed that sharp people sharpen one another, just as iron sharpens iron. If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.
John C. Maxwell
#28. El hambre agudiza el ingenio," said Raphael.
Hunger sharpens the wit.
"Good proverb," said Magnus. "However, like most proverbs, it sounds wise and yet does not actually clarify anything.
Cassandra Clare
#29. That righteous anger quickly sharpens into determination. Determination, of course, being nothing more than anger with brakes and a steering wheel.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#30. You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
Baltasar Gracian
#31. Hunger sharpens your ingenuity, she would always conclude with a laugh.
Maria Duenas
#32. Any book thoughtfully read sharpens the mind and improves on and individual's professional potential.
James F. Amos
#33. It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it's really tough.
Brian Henson
#34. So many people, even now, admire privation. They think it sharpens you, the way beauty does, into something that might hurt them. They calculate their own strengths against it, unconsciously, preparing to pity you or fight. Like
Emily Fridlund
#35. 17 Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
Anonymous
#36. The morning will brighten the day, darkness gives way to light. The man awakens and sharpens his knife on the whetstone of success.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#37. Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
#38. Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.
Amelia B. Edwards
#40. Love sharpens the eye, the ear, the touch; it quickens the feet, it steadies the hand, it arms against the wet and the cold.
What we love to do, that we do well.
To know is not all; it is only half.
To love is the other half
John Burroughs
#41. ...the breath that sharpens life is life itself...
Philip Larkin
#42. Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.
Hyman G. Rickover
#43. Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.
Claudia Gray
#44. The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?
Judith Ellen Foster
#45. There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged bladder. The world slows down, the focus sharpens, the brain comes back on line. Huge nebulous difficulties prove on close calm examination to be merely cloud giants.
Tom Holt
#46. And my religious hunger, now invents God
To make them a frame, to fill the void.
Then my silly pious sense of harmony
Loudly rejoices in orderly actuality
But already, my fierce rebellion, the best poet
Calmly sharpens a knife on the stone of my heart.
Rafal Wojaczek
#47. Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
Danica McKellar
#48. What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.
Rick Yancey
#49. But there was change in the air, and whether for good or ill, change always quickens the pulse and sharpens the senses.
Karen Engelmann
#50. As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
#51. A deeper intimacy with God sharpens our awareness of sin, which causes a stronger need for grace and a freer offering of mercy.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#52. 6Night prayera makes a deeper impression and sharpens words - 7 you are kept busy for long periods of the day - 8so celebrate the name of your Lord and devote yourself wholeheartedly to Him.
Anonymous
#53. Boston is a great center of learning. That surgeon was a tantric Buddha," said Ram in admiration, "The smell of cautery is the finest incense. It sharpens the mind.
Joe Niemczura
#54. If you are forced to describe things for someone else, it sharpens your senses. And also your sense of how hard it is to make the translation from the vibrant, multi-faceted world to a sentence that distils it.
Judith Thurman
#55. A wise board accumulates rational wisdom, embraces unconventional wisdom and sharpens system wisdom.
Pearl Zhu
#56. For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
Robert Genn
#57. My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.
Edith Sitwell
#58. Even when you're terrified, or because fear sharpens the mind, you get flashes of blinding comprehension. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#59. The sea, as much as the light, gives this curve of coast it's flavor. The light takes it's color from the sea, sometimes seems to be emerging from it. And the sea here is ever-present. On clear days it coats the air with a transparent tinge of palest blue that salts and sharpens every detail.
James D. Houston
#60. Being temporarily broke sharpens the mirror's reflection.
Garry Fitchett
#61. Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.
William J. Clinton
#62. Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.
Samuel Rutherford
#63. Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#65. The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.
George Steiner
#66. There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day.
Frederick Russell Burnham
#67. I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until after I've written a scene - or maybe after I've daydreamed it.
Edan Lepucki
#68. I can't give other people what I've not experienced to some extent myself. It sharpens your game and also, like any athlete, you're more fit because you have to be. You're getting ready because you have a reason to.
Tony Robbins
#69. The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#70. I've been wondering lately whether fear is necessary for survival, whether it sharpens the senses during storms of uncertainity. Or is it, as I suspect, merely another variant of weakness?
Cristina Garcia
#71. As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
C.L.R. James
#72. One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
Francis Collins
#73. Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.
Lord Chesterfield
#74. Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.
Ed Helms
#75. Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve problems logically, and to express themselves more easily and clearly.
Mem Fox
#76. As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another
Tim Tebow
#77. I think that the cultural dominance of narrative forms that seduce you with character and plot perhaps at the expense of ideas, like The Magic Mountain [won't last]. Starvation sharpens the appetite.
David Mitchell
#78. It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.
John Updike
#79. I thought to myself with what means, with what deceptions, with how many varied arts, with what industry a man sharpens his wits to deceive another and through these variations the world is made more beautiful.
Francesco Vettori
#80. The spirit of true religion breathes gentleness and affability; it gives a native, unaffected ease to the behavior; it is social, kind, cheerful; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit.
Hugh Blair
#81. Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
Pliny The Elder
#83. Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.
Paul Fussell
#84. It's a strange product of infatuation, she thinks. To want to tell someone about mundane things. The awareness of another person suddenly sharpens your senses, so that the little things come into focus and the world seems more beautiful and complicated.
Alexis M. Smith
#85. The best way to solve a problem is not to think of it as a problem but just as a difficulty or a challenge. Technically, the obstacle is the same, but you'll be able to approach it with a positive attitude that sharpens the mind and beats a path towards more solutions in the future.
A.G. Roemmers
#86. Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.
Mason Cooley
#87. Writing sharpens life; life enriches writing.
Sylvia Plath
#88. War," Pax said, "either dulls the mind to despair or sharpens it toward intuitive truths.
Dean Koontz
#89. A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy.
R.D. Laing
#90. Missing someone is the whetstone that sharpens want.
Leah Raeder
#91. When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.
Leni Zumas
#92. Spend time with people who know how to use their days well. Just as iron sharpens iron, positive people will inspire you to be positive.
Rihanna
#93. Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of the man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs. Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look for.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#94. If you admit you need people, you can lose them.' Her gaze sharpens, returning to the present. 'But needing people can save your life.
Amy Ewing
#95. Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance
Friedrich Nietzsche
#96. Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.
Hugh Jackman
#97. Your energy and your awareness are directly connected. If your energies are intense, your awareness naturally grows and sharpens.
Jaggi Vasudev
#98. Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barleywine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer.
Michael Jackson
#99. What can it be about low temperatures
that sharpens the edges of objects?
Ian McEwan
#100. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
