Alicia Keys

I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.

American Musician

Sudha Murty

When you are chiselling a sculpture, it won't happen in one day, it happens over a period of time. It's the same way that my personality has changed over the past 15 years. I am not the same person I used to be and my life experiences are what have made me.

Indian Educator

Brie Larson

A lot of stuff I was reading in mythology was about how women used to be taught to be wild. The wild woman was an essence that existed in the world. We're still coming back from many years of us being chiseled out to be identical and quiet.

American Actress

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

Australian Musician

Samuel Butler

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

British Poet

William Cullen Bryant

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

American Poet

Chris Arreola

I don't have a muscle body. I don't have a chiseled frame.

American Boxer

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

American Leader

Michelangelo

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

Italian Artist

Joseph Parker

I can get to a point where I get pretty chiselled.

New Zealander Athlete

Remember 'chisel' is commonly associated with sculpting or carpentry.

Typical Tool

Using a chisel involves physical effort, often with a hammer.

Physical Action

'Chisel' in sports is less about cheating and more about precision striking.

Boxing Jargon

Used in casual conversation, mainly among sports enthusiasts or commentators.

Colloquial Use

The verb 'chisel' emphasizes the art of creating or transforming something.

Creation Process

Be aware, 'chisel' can imply dishonest behavior when used in certain contexts.

Deceptive Context

Considered slang in the US, may not be understood internationally.

American Slang

Used metaphorically to describe someone working towards a personal goal.

Metaphorical Shape

Can also relate to refining skills or talents over time.

Self Improvement

 Yeah, the blades. So that's what they would use to cut the slate. They would used this to cut it into the rectangles, and then they would have used a chisel and the mallet to split it by hand. Are you enjoying yourself? Yeah, you're going to cut me in half. No. I'm not because you'll probably sue me,

Spotting the World's...

 you can look and to measure and that you have an instinct for this and that if you can look at something and translate it into your hands and then make the chisel to do what you want it to do then you'll be okay if you're doing the clay or if you're doing the transition from

Watch a Masterpiece...

 should let you know what exactly they do it well like most birds offices will start maybe classifying or the each other the universe by looking at the big if you look at the big the biggest quite huge it's like a chisel and most birds will eat both you know they're both

Safari Live - Day 348 PIPE...

 The attack was historical, an act of damnatio memoriae, the damnation of memory. Somebody smashed the pharaoh's statues, took a chisel and attempted to erase the pharaoh's name and image from history. Who was this pharaoh, and what was behind the attack? Here's the

The pharaoh that...

 into a day she'll never forget I am not worried about the pain in whatever life I think about that I won't get more beauty as his clan feast the shaman sharpens his tools for the main event when the chisel gets sharp it will be less painful for the person who

Teeth Chiseling PIPE...

 One is imposed on the environment, the other creates it. One is designed for nature, the other is designed by her. Michelangelo said that when he looked at raw marble, he saw a figure struggling to be free. The chisel was Michelangelo's only tool.

Design at the...

 this on foot Simon chisel you can help me I hate putting such a young animal through so much stress but we all agree that if we don't capture it today then the calf has no chance of survival you're gonna have to get out of the car yeah

Baby Calf Emergency...

 little cells and nothing else but to me there is something more fundamental which is this idea that in our world we're stuck with two ways of making things there is the subtractive you can take a chisel in chisel of a matter and

Computing with fluids PIPE...

 They do exactly what we tell them and nothing more. Our very first tool only cut where we struck it. The chisel only carves where the artist points it. And even our most advanced tools do nothing without our explicit direction.

The incredible...

 Let's imagine a sculptor building a statue, just chipping away with his chisel. Michelangelo had this elegant way of describing it when he said,