Sharpen The Mind Quotes

#1. The outbreath is like a whetstone, and the mind is like the knife or sword that is being sharpened on that stone. When you sharpen a knife, you draw the blade of the knife across the sharpening stone. Following your outbreath is like drawing the blade of mind across the breath. Then

Chogyam Trungpa

#2. I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.

Albert Einstein

#3. Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered an occasional groan of pleasure. A massage from Mimi was a fantastic experience, and she felt like a kitten who just wanted to purr and wave its paws around.

Stieg Larsson

#4. People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things. There's black people from America and then there's black people from Africa. Racially, they're the same; culturally, they're extremely different.

Russell Peters

#5. Even a brilliant mind sometimes needs a dull stone to sharpen itself.

Ken Liu

#6. A man must earn his daily bread by some means some-where, and if his bread fails to nourish his soul, at least his body will be nourished while his soul suffers.

Jose Saramago

#7. Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

Wes Fesler

#8. I have already discovered that it is useless to ask neuroscientists questions that lie outside their specialty. The dopamine guys know the dopamine guys, but they don't know the cognitive-processing guys.

Karen Pryor

#9. We can learn from teaching. But in order to master, we must be the teacher.

Charles F. Glassman

#10. Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,
as good no scythe as no edge.

Joseph Hall

#11. I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.

Patrick DeWitt

#12. One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.

Alessandra Stanley

#13. It's funny what people will do to be remembered.

John Green

#14. I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.

Ursula Andress

#15. The truth is that I did feel bad before, but now my patience is at a thread. It's not as if I can go back and undo the past.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. Sharpen your mind with the beauty of knowledge and the tears of experience to be wise.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.

Ken Robinson

#18. Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

Laura Joh Rowland

#19. You mind your tongue!"
"Oh, I do," I said. "I sharpen it every evening on your name.

Franny Billingsley

#20. This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Sakyong Mipham

#21. I only knew basic western trail riding. Nothing fancy.

Julie Benz

#22. Contrary to my previously held belief, hunger does NOT, in fact, sharpen the mind.

Wendy Mass

#23. I love travel, it promotes open-mindedness, and I believe that the interactions you have as you go places and meet people all sharpen the mind.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#24. Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Stephen Covey

#25. Fathom the destiny that, does not just lay before you - but, awaits you.

Eleesha