#sharpen

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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

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

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


#been #creative #free #i #me

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


King Solomon


#friend #iron #sharpens

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

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


Edmund Burke


#helper #nerves #our #sharpens #skill

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.


Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau


#each #ears #fields #individual #just