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

Down, Give, Four

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Lao Tzu

Keep, Fill, Knife

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston

Busy, Knife, Weep

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.
Lucy Powell

Government, Between, Choice

In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep.
Daniel H. Wilson

Future, Sleep, Mean

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?
Jerry Pournelle

Writing, Hard, Down

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

Fitness, Long, Game

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

End, Job, Writing

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