Sharpen Your Tools Quotes

#1. If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools.

Confucius

#2. The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Confucius

#3. Writing is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

Lawrence Lessig

#4. A person is a person because s/he recognizes others as persons.

Desmond Tutu

#5. I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.

John Grogan

#6. I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.

Donald Sutherland

#7. What God is to the world, parents are to their children.

Philo

#8. God, those eyes. Those eyes find me, every time.

Laurelin Paige

#9. He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y

Cormac McCarthy

#10. When the boy asked him if this knowledge were a special knowledge only to the blind the blind man said that it was not. He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had no time to sharpen them.

Cormac McCarthy

#11. The theater, for me, has always been a place where I'm free to be more creative, a place to sharpen my tools.

Ethan Hawke

#12. There are tools that help sharpen freestyle skills like having a diverse vernacular, some sense of music theory, being outspoken, phrasing, spacing, cross word puzzles, thesauruses, the ability to expand on an issue and embellish that with more descriptive terminology.

Myka 9

#13. Is this how you think we should fight, Baru Fisher? With coin and open roads?" "No war has ever been won by slaughtering the enemy wholesale.

Seth Dickinson

#14. Scared of a bunch of water? Then get out the rain.
Order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain.

Daniel Dumile

#15. 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 Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#16. Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

Simon Sinek

#17. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

Samuel Johnson