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  • It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult, instead of sharpening concentration we tend to set it aside and instead turn on the television, which not only requires minimal attention, but in fact tends to diffuse what little it commands with choppy editing, commercial interruptions, and generally inane content.

    Book   Reading   Editing  
  • A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

    Hands   Tree   Needs  
    Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.180, Aesop
  • I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

    World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)
  • The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before.Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid.

    Eye   Warrior   Swimming  
    Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.28, Penguin UK
  • ‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

    Party   Struggle   Class  
    Leon Trotsky (1970). “Germany, 1931-1932”
  • To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about real stuff, like terror atrocities and human rights abuses and pencil-sharpening techniques.

    Jobs   Real   Rights  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.

    Kevin   Littles   Faces  
    Portal 2 Comes to PS3 Sony Press Conference e3 2010, www.youtube.com. June 17, 2010.
  • Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.

    Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.51, Harper Collins
  • He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

    Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
  • Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and understanding mirror of man's actions, thereby sharpening human awareness and awakening conscience.

    Powerful   Men   Mirrors  
  • Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

    Spiritual   Fire   Sight  
    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.216
  • The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a course - appears to be an excellent means of sharpening the mind and developing mental skills that are of general benefit.

    Mean   Skills   Mind  
  • Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

    Money   Heart   Knives  
  • Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

    Law   Interesting   Mind  
    Letter to A.S. Suvorin, January 4, 1889.
  • The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

    Men   Desire   Doe  
    Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics
  • I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Try it on." "It's probably a little snug. Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing." He merely smiled. "It has a slit up the thigh." His smile depened. "Zip it up?" Patch's eyes made a slow assessment of me, sharpening to vivid black. "I'm going to have a hard time sending you off with Scott in that dress. Just a heads-up: If you come home and the dress looks even slightly tampered with, i will track Scott down, and when i find him, it won't be pretty.

    Home   Eye   Hard Times  
  • No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science or psychology, can ever take the place of one's sensitiveness to the life of the earth. This is the beginning and the end of a person's true education.

    "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 175, 1936.
  • There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

    Teaching   Praise   Wit  
    'The Schoolmaster' (1570) bk. 1
  • The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions.

    Army   Play   People  
  • This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

    Sakyong Mipham (2013). “The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure”, p.62, Harmony
  • Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  • You've been holding a machete waiting to cut your way through and into the place called Future. You have waited and waited and now this knife has grown dull. But now I am sending angelic hosts to sharpen your weapon and assist in cutting you through. Your tongue has even grown powerless in this last season because your faith and hope have been deferred. But this is NOW! I will put MY Word in your mouth. You will speak with a new vigor. I AM sharpening your tongue. Get ready, for all things are being sharpened. Get ready, for you will now cut and your way will open up.

    "Chuck Pierce and Keith Miller: 'All Things are Being Sharpened!' AND 'Blaze Miracle Paths Everywhere You Go!'". www.elijahlist.com. May 8, 2010.
  • As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not allow yourself to be in any way disgusted or annoyed by the considerable abuse & misrepresentation which unless I greatly mistake is in store for you... And as to the curs which will bark and yelp - you must recollect that some of your friends at any rate are endowed with an amount of combativeness which (though you have often & justly rebuked it) may stand you in good stead - I am sharpening up my claws and beak in readiness.

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

    Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.170, Book Tree
  • I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

    Strong   Hurt   Dirty  
    World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)
  • I talked to people in the pencil industry and I talked to people as I was sharpening their pencils about the frustrations they have with pencils, so I really did do my research and I do know more about pencils than most people.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, then use it as a drowning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself, totally.

    Pain   Meditation   Soul  
    "The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha".
  • In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the function of literature is communication between things that are different simply because they are different, not blunting but even sharpening the differences between them, following the true bent of written language.

    "Six Memos for the Next Millennium". Book by Italo Calvino. Translated by Patrick Creagh, 1996.
  • 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 (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.151, Delphi Classics
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