Sharpening Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  David Rees

  Frustration, People, Research

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Cutting, Knives, Waiting

  "Chuck Pierce and Keith Miller: 'All Things are Being Sharpened!' AND 'Blaze Miracle Paths Everywhere You Go!'". www.elijahlist.com. May 8, 2010.

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• Las imágenes apasionadas y veraces son tan poderosas como las palabras. Si por sí solas no pueden provocar un cambio, al menos pueden ofrecer un espejo comprensivo de las acciones del hombre, agudizando así la conciencia humana y despertando las conciencias.

  Cornell Capa

  Powerful, Men, Mirrors

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• La autopista es la última frontera. Es insuperable como campo de entrenamiento para afilar las habilidades de supervivencia.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Skills, Survival, Training

  Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

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• El patio principal estaba lleno de guerreros: tritones con cola de pez de cintura para abajo y cuerpo humano de cintura para arriba, salvo que su piel era azul, algo que nunca antes había visto. Otros afilaban lanzas y espadas. Uno pasó junto a nosotros, nadando deprisa. Tenía los ojos verdes brillantes, como los que ponen en los globos, y dientes de tiburón. No te enseñan cosas así en "La Sirenita".

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Warrior, Swimming

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.28, Penguin UK

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• Ver al carnicero dar una palmada al filete antes de colocarlo en la cuadra y afilar el cuchillo fue como olvidar el desayuno al instante. También era agradable -lo era de verdad- verle cortarlo tan suave y jugoso. No había nada salvaje en el acto, aunque el cuchillo era grande y afilado; era una obra de arte, de alto arte; había delicadeza de tacto, claridad de tono, hábil manejo del tema, fino sombreado. Era el triunfo de la mente sobre la materia.

  Charles Dickens

  Arte, Bloque, Comida

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Dejarnos con Eric es como contratar a una niñera que se pasa el tiempo afilando cuchillos.

  Veronica Roth

  Knives, Leaving, Divergent

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• Las empresas se meten en ranuras y siguen afinando lo que están haciendo, cuando en realidad lo que necesitan hacer a veces es parar y hacer algo completamente distinto.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Needs, Facts, Sometimes

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Creo que Broadway es bueno para afinar tus habilidades. Es lo mejor para alcanzar realmente el cenit de tu talento. Llegas tan lejos y alcanzas la cima que dices: "Quizá esta sea la mejor actuación que puedo hacer".

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Skills, Zenith

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Italo Calvino

  Running, Communication, Differences

  "Six Memos for the Next Millennium". Book by Italo Calvino. Translated by Patrick Creagh, 1996.

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• I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.

  Benjamin Carson

  Determination, Hands, Skills

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• My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off and my family hands me the snapshot. My sisters and I watch quietly together, eager to see what develops. Ghe grey-greensurface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in suprise to see, her long-cherished wish.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Eye, Hands

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• Of course, when we got home, we found that Dagda had peed on my down comforter. He had also eaten part of Mom's maidenhair fern and barfed it up on the carpet. Then he had apparently worked himself into a frenzy sharpening his ting by amazingly effective claws on the armrest of my dad's favorite chair. Now he was asleep on a pillow, curled up like a fuzzy little snail. "God, he's so cute," I said, shaking my head.

  Cate Tiernan

  Cute, Mom, Dad

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Blood Witch: Book Three”, p.39, Penguin

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• It always struck Fire, the physical affection between these siblings, who as often as not were at each other's throats over one thing or another. She liked the way the four of them shifted and changed shape, bumping and clanging against one another, sharpening each other's edges and then smoothing them down again, and somehow always finding the way to fit together.

  Kristin Cashore

  Sibling, Fire, Together

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

  Robert Morrison MacIver

  Success, Stress, Healthy

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• But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. 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

  Jobs, Writing, Understanding

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• Las armas que una vez estuvieron fuera afilándose en la guerra están ahora allí dentro, en la fortaleza, frágiles en vitrinas de cristal; ¿Por qué será (estoy pensando en el cuidadoso moldeado alrededor de los arcos de piedra) que en este tiempo, defensas tan elaboradas guardan cosas que ya (no) vale la pena defender?

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Thinking, Glasses

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions.

  Jiang Zemin

  Army, Play, People

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• Los amplios efectos que pueden obtenerse por el castigo en el hombre y en la bestia, son el aumento del miedo, la agudización del sentido de la astucia, el dominio de los deseos; así es que el castigo amansa al hombre, pero no lo hace "mejor".

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Desire, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.

  Jason Bateman

  Garden, Play, Tree

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• I couldn’t help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them—it was a kind of sad I didn’t mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

  John Green

  Real, School, Sadness

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.215, A&C Black

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• Me gustaría dar las gracias a Sony por su amable hospitalidad y por no golpearme repetidamente en la cara. Si parezco un poco nervioso, es porque entre bastidores me presentaron a Kevin Butler como el vicepresidente de las cosas afiladas.

  Gabe Newell

  Kevin, Littles, Faces

  Portal 2 Comes to PS3 Sony Press Conference e3 2010, www.youtube.com. June 17, 2010.

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• The first bowl sleekly moistened throat and lips, The second banished all my loneliness The third expelled the dullness from my mind, Sharpening inspiration gained from all the books I've read. The fourth brought forth light perspiration, Dispersing a lifetimes troubles through my pores. The fifth bowl cleansed every atom of my being. The sixth has made me kin to the Immortals. This seventh... I can take no more.

  Lu Tong

  Loneliness, Book, Inspiration

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• Hay una chispa parpadeante en todos nosotros que, si salta a la edad adecuada... puede iluminar el resto de nuestras vidas, elevando nuestros ideales, profundizando nuestra tolerancia y agudizando nuestro apetito por conocer el resto del mundo. Los intercambios educativos y culturales... ofrecen una oportunidad perfecta para que crezca esta preciosa chispa, haciéndonos más sensibles y ciudadanos internacionales más sabios a lo largo de nuestras carreras.

  Ronald Reagan

  Educational, Opportunity, Careers

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

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Spiritual, Fire, Sight

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.216

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