#sharpen

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Races always are good to show where you are reaching in your training as well as to keep you sharpened. Every race, in my program, I put it in a special way like a ladder, climbing up slowly and slowly to the next one. I see where my training is, and that is like a test.


David Rudisha


#climbing #every #good #i #i see

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.


George Steiner


#event #every #honing #impact #individual

You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.


Ed Bradley


#better #comes #get #hard #i

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.


Giuseppe Garibaldi


#another #brothers #country #fetters #forged

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.


Diane Johnson


#already #apparent #becomes #deepening #end

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.


Lucy Powell


#choice #government #labour #labour government #minds

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.


William Drummond


#scholar #sharpens

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.


Edmund Burke


#helper #nerves #our #sharpens #skill

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?


Kate Chopin


#branches #breathe #chord #detect #ear

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


Confucius


#diligence #expectations #first #his #life