#harp

I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

#beautiful #beautiful thing #believe #capability #couple

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#good #learning #praise #sharpen #such

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

#encourage #good #here #him #i

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#concept #fuzzy #image #nothing #sharp

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#impatient #lifelong #long struggle #sharp #struggle

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#blind #fortune #invisible #look #man

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#art form #aversion #between #conventional #criticism

The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#businesses #crisis #declines #destroyed #economic

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest. ↗

— Xun Zi

#fluency #mind #moderate #quickness #rest

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude. ↗

— John Stuart Blackie

#doth #glittering #god #makes #man