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Meditation helps sharpen the mind.
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Meditation will sharpen your senses and your awareness.
Tara Stiles / Model
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There's nothing like desperation to sharpen your sense of focus.
Thomas Newman /
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When I don't play international cricket, I sharpen my skills at the NCA.
S. Sreesanth /
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Tactical and technical awareness can only improve and sharpen with time.
Tobin Heath / Soccer Player
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The future will be good for those who work hard and sharpen their skills.
Sunny Singh / Writer
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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham / Writer
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Nerves can be useful, as they sharpen you up, make you determined to try your hardest and do your best.
Stephen Cole /
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God has been faithful time and again to surround me with people that sharpen me and that make me better.
Tobymac / Recording Artist
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
Bear Grylls / Writer
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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 / Actor
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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius / Philosopher
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Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom.
Joseph B. Wirthlin / Businessman
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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 / Journalist
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About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
Edsger Dijkstra / Computer Scientist
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Comedy clubs sharpen a comic, they're like the gym for us, making us stronger, faster, funnier. Without them every comedy show would feel like a monologue.
Nigel Ng /
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I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.
John Grogan / Journalist
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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 / Actor
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I know when I step into midfield I have to sharpen my feet up and be more aware of what's around me, at centre back it's more about timing, positioning and communication.
Phil Jones / Footballer
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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 / Writer
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I think it is important to surround myself with artists who share the same goals and aspirations. This way, I am constantly encouraged to sharpen my craft and challenge myself.
Ravyn Lenae /
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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 / Baritone
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
Pamela Nicholson /
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Adversity will only sharpen our wits and make us more strong-willed, resulting in the political awakening of more Hong Kongers, not to mention the international community's support.
Joshua Wong /
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The Performance Center features seven training rings, a state-of-the-art gym and nearly every piece of equipment a future WWE superstar could need to sharpen their body and their mind.
William Regal / Professional Wrestler
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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 / Poet
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In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
Narendra Modi / Prime Minister Of India
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Growing up in a bluegrass or acoustic-oriented world, the musicians become so focused on performance, as far as playing. We tend to overanalyze the notes, so you're always trying to sharpen everything up.
Chris Thile / Mandolinist
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Sadly, I can't avoid being 75. Like many people of my age, we are all heading towards the grim reaper, and I am clinging on. I just to have to sharpen my fingernails a little so that I can hang on for longer!
Terry Wogan / Television Presenter
Clinging
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Reaper
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When cats scratch the furniture, it's only because they're trying to sharpen their claws, which means they get so long that they want to grind them down. So if you trim their claws routinely, it helps tremendously.
Beth Ostrosky Stern / Television Personality
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Furniture
Grind
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Scratch
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Like MCs, each chess player has his own style: how he likes to open, when he likes to attack. Just like we face off with each other lyrically, we challenge each other's minds on the chessboard. Sharpen each other's swords.
Gza / Hip-Hop Artist
Chess
Likes
Player
Face
Attack
Open
Challenge
Lyrically
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I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.
Andrew O'hagan / Novelist
Diet
Morning
Beckham
Becoming
Coke
Pencils
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In college, I tried to start wrestling as soon as I could and when it was available to me, as I loved competing, and then got into MMA under Pat Miletich, where I was able to sharpen all my skills and develop into a true fighter.
Robbie Lawler / Mixed Martial Artist
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College
Competing
Fighter
Mma
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Wrestling
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Guitarists use downstrokes and upstrokes to play fast patterns, but doubling up on down- or upstrokes might be essential to the sound of a specific melody. So as a player, you've got to sharpen your picking skills as much as you can.
John Petrucci / Guitarist
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Brands are useful ways of short-handing practically anything - look at the way Tom Wolfe first used brand name lists to sharpen up a character and a situation. Look at the most brand-referenced novel, Bret Easton Ellis's 'Glamorama.'
Peter York / Author
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In order to sharpen its prediction skills, our brains constantly build models, or 'templates,' of the world. The better the template, the better the performance. And now we know playing action video game actually fosters better templates.
Daphne Bavelier /
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Anytime you spar at a new dojo, whether it's in Japan, Brazil, or Thailand, the fighters come after the new guy. It's a way to test yourself against the best and to sharpen your technical skills and push yourself to be the best you can be.
Luke Rockhold / Mixed Martial Artist
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Apart from boosting our long-term economic strength like other Asian economic powers, Philippine companies expanding overseas and going beyond our comfort zones, or going to some uncharted territories, will help sharpen our management skills.
Andrew Tan / Business Person
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Long Term
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Skills
Uncharted
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It was really difficult being away from MMA because it's been a way of life for me for 13 years. But being on the outside and coaching helps you sharpen your skills because you have to explain what you do, why things work and why other things don't.
Rashad Evans / Mixed Martial Artist
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As we celebrate a culture of giving, however, we must also sharpen the question of how extreme wealth generation happens in the first place. And we must recognize that just societies cannot be realized merely by the willful distribution of surplus wealth.
Rohini Nilekani /
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Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
David Lynch / Film Director
Business
Ability
Creativity
Emotion
Filmmaking
Intellect
Intuition
Joining
Keys
Painting
Thinking
Together
Then
Could
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Looking back is a way to sharpen the focus on the things you want to change in your life. I think there's something about nostalgia that really puts a fine point on the here-and-now, and that can be incredibly fascinating and interesting and engaging for the mind.
Sarah Paulson / Film Actress
Change
Engaging
Fascinating
Fine
Focus
Interesting
Looking Back
Mind
Nostalgia
Want
Way
Things
Life Focus Your
Really
Life Change Focus
Looking
Life Change Mind
Back
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Point
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
M. J. Rose /
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
Tariq Ramadan / Writer
Atheist
Conscience
Order
Real
Responding
Sacred
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I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I'm always absorbing. I mean, when people say, 'What is your inspiration?' I could throw up. I mean, I'm inspired by the fact I get up in the morning. And I'm still here.
Iris Apfel / Interior Designer
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We undertook a huge internal transformation to sharpen our customer focus, step up innovation, improve productivity to ensure competitiveness, change our culture, and simplify our ways of working so that our size and scale became a competitive advantage rather than a bureaucratic hangover after years of diversification.
Frans Van Houten /
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Competitive Advantage
Diversification
Focus
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Productivity
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Meditating is easier than most people think. Start by focusing and following your breath. The goal is not to eliminate thoughts entirely but to continually return to your breath. Taking this time to relax your mind can help sharpen your focus in other aspects of your work and allow you to work for longer periods of time.
Lewis Howes /
Following
Meditating
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Relax
Time Work Relax
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Breath
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