Sharpens Iron Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

William Drummond

#3. As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

Anonymous

#4. 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

#5. As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

King Solomon

#6. 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

#7. 17 Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.

Anonymous

#8. One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

Francis Collins

#9. As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another

Tim Tebow

#10. 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

#11. I got entangled in my own data, and my conclusion directly contradicts the original idea from which I start. Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism. I will add, however, that apart from my solution of the social formula, there can be no other.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.

Julie Burchill

#13. She stood before him fully clothed yet gloriously naked. He saw the universe through her and began to give praise!

Sanjo Jendayi

#14. Birds are sensitive to mispronunciation, even more sensitive than the French.

Alan Powers

#15. Most people [ ... ] prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else

John Wyndham

#16. If our cover breaks in here, we're toast. Worse that toast, we're the crappy crumbs of carbon left at the bottom of a toster oven that I haven't cleaned out in three months.

Michael R. Underwood