Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
I get up every morning and chop wood, and I pretty much do it seven days a week, and I like to do it. I still have time for my wife and my son, who's 14, and at this point, my head is still above water.
For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.
When you're a Viking, you never know when you're going to get the axe.
I collect old rusty hand tools and sharpen and polish them, then use them to build things out of walnut and cherry that I harvest from fallen trees in the woods.
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
I come from a long line of lumberjacks. My family has a proud heritage of swinging the ax. I've always been quick to take on a big piece of timber, and I'm just as ready to topple the big spending in Washington.
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.