Zitat des Tages über Schärfung / Sharpening:
For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.
One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work, and it is a situation of steel sharpening steel.
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.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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?
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.
Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell, and now the shell wasn't there. It was total exposure.
Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.