Hone Quotations

I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft.

Cooking classes are a great way to hone your skills, learn new recipes, and meet like-minded friends. Spending time in the kitchen with people who love to cook as much as you do is fun and educational.

You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.

You have to hone your craft, but you also have to be born with a certain amount of talent, and I never took the talent for granted - I've always worked really hard to be as good as I could be.

I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays.

As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.

Yes, education is the catalyst that will hone and sharpen our talents, skills, and abilities and cause them to blossom.

The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you have to work to hone your skills.

We're going to hone in 95 percent of our time on George Mason. If you don't win the first one, you don't get to the second one. But if you get to the second one and you're not prepared and you don't get out of the weekend, I don't feel like that's where Michigan State is right now.

Working with limited resources is an excellent way to hone skills that will serve you well for the rest of your career. You will prioritize profitability from the start.

We're just proud of the fact that everybody is contributing. You want to spread it around enough so the other coach can't just hone in on one part of your game.

Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters.

The fact of the matter is that you can protect people to a certain extent, but you always come up with a bigger bomb. We just need to continually hone our skills ... so that we don't set a pattern that the enemy can exploit.

When I got to write for the 'Battlefield' record, it was almost therapeutic. I had gone through a few things in the two years prior and it was really nice to take those thoughts and emotions and get them out. I definitely want to hone that side of my artistry.

When I came back my sophomore year, I had probably worked harder than any other summer. I think that was because I never had time to hone my skills, I had never had time to concentrate on one sport.

One things we wanted to do, because of the things they do defensively, is we wanted to hone down the number of plays we ran,

But the hawks actually hone in on the smoke.

Basically what happens over the course of the seven weeks is they (the students) create, write and hone a five-minute act that's based on their personal lives. We feel the funniest stuff comes from people's experiences.

What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.

There are no new programs, ... There are some refinements to existing programs. We're continuing to hone our schools to meet the needs of all of our kids.

I take my father's advice: Make hay while the sun is still shining. Go host if I get the chance. It helps me hone my skills in that arena.

Listening back to the tapes to make this record, it was just one of those nights. Usually when you put out a live record, you kind of cull them from a series of shows -- you get the best performance of each song and hone it down. But with that one, we just kind of let it fly.

joining the society is a great way to continue learning about Churchill and further hone skills that can be learned from him.

I was no great boxer, but I just loved to get out there and box. The most important thing I want the kids to learn is to have dedication to their performance. Believe in your skills, hone those skills and never give up are also what I hope these kids will take away from their boxing experience.

We've kind of gotten over whether they should have used it as a test year. This will evolve a little bit over the next two years. Between 2006 and 2007, we're all going to be adapting. But we're hoping what we can do is get to the 2007 world championships and everyone will be able to hone in on Beijing.

We had a chance to talk as a team a couple of days ago and our team was disappointed and frustrated. We've had two days to practice and re-focus. To be able to hone in on an opponent helps us even more.

Writers are born, not made. We can hone the craft. We need to try to encourage someone and make a dialogue, suggesting ways to do something differently or how to improve.

This week we'll fine tune and hone in on what we do well.

Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.

As the day wears on and gets into the evening, we'll try to hone in some new things and hopefully find some speed.

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

These are the kind of kids we want on our team. They have the proper motivation. They want to go to college. They are hockey players that I think need to hone their skills a little more. And both of them get to stay close to home.

The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit, till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.

The third preseason game is really kind of the focus point of when you want to hone in on your timing because everybody knows the fourth preseason game is where you're trying to have some success. But your also don't want anyone getting hurt before the opener.

Schools find this valuable because the advisors can now sit down and look at student score reports to find where they need to incorporate technology in teaching to help students hone the skills they need.

Now it is time to really hone it in and focus. Everyone talks about how great coach Jackson is in these types of situations in the playoffs and teaching, so I am just eager to get in the film session and see what he has for us.

Now on Friday nights, Lance can kind of hone in on that job.

That's how you hone your competitive survival skills. You don't do it by getting all kinds of protection. That's a feather in their cap to be able to do this in a market that's as open as Dubai.

The Weapons Systems Trainer is part of a total training program that graduates mission-qualified C-130 aircrews. Aircrews are immersed in a variety of scenarios that allow them to hone their skills. They can prepare for a variety of missions without actually flying the aircraft.

This area was great for locution because you had a lot of Hispanics, Serbs, Croatians, Poles, people of Slavic descent. If you left there and couldn't pronounce a name, then you had to be a dummy. It was just a great place to hone your skills.

Think of the impact that this is going to have on that university. It's not only a ready-made employer, it's also a proving ground, a place where students can hone their skills ... And for the company, it's like having a well-trained work force at their back door, literally.

They have a tendency to become very focused on their interests, which allows them to hone their skills.

It's a great opportunity to get into a competitive tournament situation before jumping into league play. We really want to use these games to hone our systems and skills.

It's a great way to learn and hone kayaking and watercraft skills, and it all takes place in a safe environment.

The big push with this is to expeditiously get people in. We're really trying to hone in on this and get them in as quickly as we can.

At times, the fishing part of it becomes very secondary. Any time we are not fishing a tournament, we are a representative of Tracker Marine. We are out there teaching people how to fish and promoting the product. The business part of it is a big part of our job. A lot of young guys ask me, 'I want to be a bass pro; how do I get there?' I tell them to hone their business skills and public speaking. The sponsors want someone who can help them sell product.

I'm a 100% supporter of the portions of feminism that are empowering to women and a 100% opponent of the portions that hone victimhood as a fine art.

I guess it's something someone could consider. But your value is much higher if you're in the NBA as opposed to Europe. For an NBA veteran to leave the NBA, it would be hard to come back. It's one thing for a young player trying to hone his game to go to Europe.

I don't know if I was necessarily recruited to fit this defense. I think I was recruited more for my toughness and work ethic. I've been called the 'non-prototypical' defensive end for this defense. But the person who can really hone in on the techniques of this defense can play.

You can really explore your musical vocabulary because someone's not always listening. And sometimes someone is listening, so you can hone your craft as a performer. You can really find your voice.

The first order of business for us is to take care of the basketball. They're quick and they overplay the passing lanes. We have to have fewer than 10 turnovers in this game to be competitive, and we have to hone in on those two players and not let them beat us.

All of these dancers are dancers who are on the verge of their careers, so to speak. They're here to hone their artistry and make the transition from the classroom to the stage.