Digging A Hole Quotes

• When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

  Will Rogers

  Finding Yourself, Digging Ditches, Quitting

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• If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help.

  Seymour Chwast

  Helping, Holes, Deeper

  Seymour Chwast (1985). “The left-handed designer”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

  Tammara Webber

  Inspirational, Cowboy, Finding Yourself

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.521, Tammara Webber

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• It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.

  Denis Healey

  Law, Firsts, Good Things

  "The old bruiser who remained the boy next door". Interview with William Keegan, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2006.

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• If you're digging a hole in the wrong place, making it deeper doesn't help anything.

  Seymour Chwast

  Helping, Holes, Deeper

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• I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.

  Christopher Paolini

  Holes, Persons, Finished

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• I was good at digging holes. It was the rest of life I sucked at.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Rest Of Life, Digging, Holes

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Twisted”, p.31, Scholastic UK

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• When you are in a hole, stop digging!

  Bill McKibben

  Climate Change, Holes, Complexity

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2016

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• It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Pigs, Grandfather

  "Holes". Book by Louis Sachar, June 1, 2011.

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• If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Filled Up, Community

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.116, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.

  Ricky Gervais

  Hurt, Embarrassment, Holes

  "'The Office' Star Ricky Gervais Back with 'Extras'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. September 22, 2005.

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• I say this in the book [Today Matters], we either spend our day repairing or preparing, and if I haven't taken good care of my today's, they accumulate. So all of a sudden today what I'm doing is I'm going back, I'm repairing bad relationships and wrong decisions, and I'm digging a hole. I'm not making any progress because I'm in a repairing mode, versus if I really make today count that prepares me for tomorrow. Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.

  John C. Maxwell

  Book, Taken, Bad Relationship

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• Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Garden, Compassion

  "Hyakujō: The Everest of Zen with Bashō's Haikus". Book by Osho, 1989.

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• Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

  Louis Sachar

  Dirty, Pigs, Grandfather

  Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.57, Yearling

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• I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.

  A. A. Milne

  Rivers, Giving, Tree

  A. A. Milne (2003). “A Smackerel of Pooh: Ten Favorite Stories and Poems”, Dutton Juvenile

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• I learned early that business is business and politics is politics. The proof is how few important businessmen have made good politicians. They may think that they are very smart about everything because they made millions of dollars by digging a hole in the ground and finding oil, but the talent and luck needed to become rich are not the same talent and luck needed to succeed on Parliament Hill.

  Jean Chretien

  Smart, Thinking, Oil

  "Straight from the Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, 1985.

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• I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Weed, Garden, Plant

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• As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the path. For a moment he was baffled. It seemed to have no agricultural purpose; there was no more planting or ploughing to be done. Then he realized what it was. They were digging a mass grave. He thought of shouting an order to about turn or at least to avert their eyes, but they were almost on it, and some of them had already seen their burial place. The songs died on their lips and the air was reclaimed by the birds.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Song, Eye, Men

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• One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

  Mike Norton

  Thanksgiving, Running, Selfish

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• With the disappearance of the future, the only thing that remains in your hands is now. Then you can go deep into this now - whatsoever you are doing. You can be eating or dancing or making love to a woman or singing or digging a hole in the ground - whatsoever you are doing. This is the only time you have, why not do it totally? Why not celebrate it? Celebration and being total mean the same thing. You celebrate only when you are total in something, and when you are total in something you celebrate it.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Hands, Dancing

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