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honed
«The first thing they were told was how to hone their talent. Then they were told how to market their talent, discipline their talent and type their talent. And then they were told they might as well forget about talent.»
«The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.»
Author: George Steiner
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
| About:
Journalism,
Vision
| Keywords:
configuration, configurations, hone, honed, honing, impact, journalistic, maximum, social event
«What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.»
«It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word ''human'' disappears from the race.»
Author: Jill Tweedie
| Keywords:
disappears, dismally, enervated, enervating, hone, honed, honing, invigorate, invigorated, invigorates, invigorating, perverse
«The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
chore, concentrating, dispersing, drops, fall behind, Hard rock, hasty, hideous, hone, honed, honing, Leave No Trace, passage, rocks, rushes, trace, uproar, weakest
