#sharpen

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

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#discrimination #dull #good #great #great literature

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#barb #brief #bright #flame #love

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#going #gym #like #math #mind

The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#drama school #essential #give #ingredient #instinct

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

— Lucy Powell

#choice #government #labour #labour government #minds

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#good #learning #praise #sharpen #such

Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#encourage #good #here #him #i

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#bowl #brim #fill #keep #knife