#sharpen

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

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ↗

— Helen Keller

#complaint #joy #love #mind #pervert

Training is such a vital part of preparation for a game, you really do train to play. It tops up your ability, like sharpening a carving knife. You can get away with not doing it for a while, as long as you have reached a certain standard of fitness. ↗

— Graeme Le Saux

#ability #away #carving #certain #doing

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

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#busy #i #i am #i do #knife

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

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

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

— King Solomon

#friend #iron #sharpens

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#chop #down #first #four #give